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JONES v. CUNNINGHAM

No. 8716.

313 F.2d 347 (1963)

Claude O. JONES, Jr., Appellant, v. W. K. CUNNINGHAM, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 16, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Edmonds, III, Richmond, Va. (Court-assigned counsel), for appellant.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia (Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and HAYNSWORTH and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

Presently confined in the Virginia Penitentiary on sentences aggregating 39 years imposed in 1951, Claude O. Jones, Jr., seeks relief by way of habeas corpus on the ground that the performance of his court-appointed lawyer was so inadequate as to amount to a denial of the effective assistance of counsel. Pursuant to our holding in an earlier appeal, Jones v. Cunningham, 297 F.2d 851 (4th Cir., 1962), that this...

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