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268 F.2d 666

Docket No. 6133.

Bowland v. Tinsley

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided June 25, 1959.

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1959-06-25

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1985

3 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on Kimbrough v. United States · Williams v. United States · Bowland v. People

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1959-06-25

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¶1John H. Gately, Colorado Springs, Colo., for appellant.

¶2John W. Patterson, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., and Frank E. Hickey, Dep. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellee.

¶3Before MURRAH, PICKETT, and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5Appellant was convicted in the District Court of El Paso County, Colorado, of robbery under aggravated circumstances and was sentenced to imprisonment for 25 to 50 years. The Colorado Supreme Court affirmed, 136 Colo. 57, 314 P.2d 685, and the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari, 355 U.S. 934, 78 S.Ct. 418, 2 L.Ed.2d 417. Appellant then brought habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. The only allegation in the petition worthy of note was that the prosecuting officials knowingly used perjured testimony at the appellant’s state court jury trial to obtain conviction.

¶6The trial court, after noting certain procedural difficulties, held that the evidence failed to establish that perjury was committed at the trial and that assuming perjury was committed it was not established that the state law officials had knowledge thereof.

¶7We have examined the record submitted to us by the appellant. The evidence as to perjury and knowledge is conflicting. As there is adequate support for the findings of the trial court, they are not clearly erroneous and must be upheld. Williams v. United States, 10 Cir., 267 F. 2d 559.

¶8Affirmed.

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