Joseph Cost v. Ira M. Coiner, Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary, Successor to Otto C. Boles
This text of 402 F.2d 83 (Joseph Cost v. Ira M. Coiner, Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary, Successor to Otto C. Boles) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
We find the record supports the findings and conclusions of the District Court that, at the petitioner’s arraignment in a state court in 1962, he understood that the court would appoint a lawyer for him if he could not afford it, and that his waiver of counsel was intelligent and voluntary.
Denial of the writ of habeas corpus is affirmed.
Affirmed.
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