Limmie West, III v. State of Louisiana

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1973-09-05

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WISDOM, Circuit Judge: Limmie West was convicted of armed robbery after a jury trial in the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana. On June 12, 1969, he was sentenced to forty-nine years and six months at hard labor. He did not appeal his conviction. A year after his conviction he filed a petition for habeas-corpus in the state trial court. West’s petitio…

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