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GOODWIN v. SMYTH

No. 6063.

181 F.2d 498 (1950)

GOODWIN v. SMYTH, Superintendent of Virginia State Penitentiary.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 13, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Clair Sager, Richmond, Va., for appellant.

Frederick T. Gray, Special Assistant to Attorney General of Virginia (J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General of Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, DOBIE, Circuit Judge, and HAYES, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order denying a writ of habeas corpus. Appellant was convicted of the crime of rape and sentenced to a term of imprisonment by a court of the State of Virginia. He sought writ of error to review his conviction but this was denied by the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State. He then applied for writ of habeas corpus to a state judge and asked to be released from imprisonment on the ground that his conviction and sentence were...

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