SLAYTON v. PARRIGAN


205 S.E.2d 680 (1974)

215 Va. 27

A. E. SLAYTON, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary v. Archie Allen PARRIGAN.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 10, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Shepherd, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., on brief), for plaintiff in error.

No brief or argument on behalf of defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN and POFF, JJ.


I'ANSON, Justice.

On June 18, 1969, Archie Allen Parrigan was convicted by a jury on an indictment charging him with robbery, and he was sentenced by the trial court in accordance with the jury's verdict to confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of twenty years. We denied his petition for a writ of error to the judgment of conviction.

On February 8, 1971, Parrigan, petitioner herein, filed in the court below a petition for a writ of habeas corpus...

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