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17 F.3d 1434NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.
Wetzel Junior SMITH, Petitioner-Appellant,v.William C. DUNCIL, Warden, Huttonsville Correctional Center,Respondent-Appellee.
No. 92-6515.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Submitted Nov. 5, 1993.Decided March 2, 1994.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of west Virginia, at Huntington.  Robert J. Staker, District Judge.  (CA-90-565-3)
Wetzel Junior Smith, Appellant Pro Se.
Joanna Irene Tabit, STEPTOE & JOHNSON, Charleston, WV, for Appellee.
S.D.W.Va.
DISMISSED.
Before HALL and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges, and SPROUSE, Senior Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM:

1
Appellant seeks to appeal the district court's order denying relief on his 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254 (1988) petition.  Our review of the record and the district court's opinion accepting the recommendation of the magistrate judge discloses that this appeal is without merit.  Accordingly, we deny a certificate of probable cause to appeal and dismiss the appeal on the reasoning of the district court.  Smith v. Duncil, No. CA-90-565-3 (S.D.W. Va.  May 5, 1993).*  We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the Court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED

*
 To the extent Smith raises the cognizable claim that the evidence was insufficient to convict, we reject this contention.   See Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 320-24 (1979)