District Court, D. Montana August 14, 1979, CV-79-10-GF (United States Ex Rel. Collins v. Crist)

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HATFIELD, District Judge.

This court is petitioned for a Writ of Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner was convicted, after a jury trial, of deliberate mitigated homicide, in the District Court of the Eighth Judicial District of the State of Montana, Cascade County. He appealed to the Montana Supreme Court.