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DAVIS v. SMYTH

No. 5714.

167 F.2d 221 (1948)

DAVIS v. SMYTH.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

March 23, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. A. Hall, Jr., of Richmond, Va., for appellant.

Ballard Baker, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen. of Va., for appellee.

Before SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia denying a writ of habeas corpus to the appellant. Appellant, Willie Davis, is being held in the custody of appellee under sentences of the courts of the State of Virginia for housebreaking, felonious assault with deadly weapons and three separate sentences for escapes.

Appellant, in March, 1945, filed in the Law and Equity Court for the City...

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