District Court, W.D. Virginia December 30, 1969, Civ. A. No. 69-C-3-H (Keister v. Cox)

WIDENER, District Judge.

This petition for habeas corpus was filed in forma pauperis by James C. Keister, a prisoner of Virginia, who was convicted of first degree murder in the Circuit Court of Rockingham County on July 21, 1966, and sentenced to 35 years in the penitentiary.

The homicide took place on December 29, 1965. Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.