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- Title: Horsley v. Simpson
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 16, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Appellant was convicted by a jury on September 27, 1962, in the Circuit Court of Saint Clair County, Alabama, of having carnal knowledge of his seven-yearold daughter. He was sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of twenty years. After the adverse jury verdict, Appellants counsel neither moved the court for a new trial nor appealed the case to the state appellate court. Appellant twice petitioned the sentencing court for a writ of error coram nobis but was unsuccessful. Having exhausted his state remedies, Appellant filed in forma pauperis a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, alleging that his conviction was due to inadequate assistance of counsel and that he was unlawfully denied his right to appellate review in violation of his sixth and fourteenth amendment rights. The district court denied the relief sought in the habeas corpus petition and Appellant perfected an appeal to this court. We reverse the judgment of the district court.