MEMORANDUM
MEREDITH, District Judge.
Petitioner, presently confined in the Missouri State Penitentiary, has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254.
In 1953, petitioner was convicted by a jury of robbery in the first degree, and sentenced to life imprisonment under the Missouri Second Offender Act applicable at that time, R.S.Mo., V.A.M.S., § 556.280 (1949). On appeal, this conviction was affirmed by the...
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