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PATLER v. SLAYTON

No. 73-1169.

503 F.2d 472 (1974)

John PATLER, Appellant, v. A. E. SLAYTON, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 28, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elise B. Heinz, Arlington, Va., for appellant.

Linwood T. Wells, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Before BOREMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and CRAVEN and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

John Patler was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, Virginia, of the first degree murder of George Lincoln Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi Party. Patler was apprehended about one-half hour after the homicide less than a mile from the scene of the crime. The complex, "largely circumstantial" web of evidence upon which the jury verdict rested is set out in the opinion of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia...

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