JONES v. SMYTH

No. 7939.

270 F.2d 808 (1959)

Anderson JONES, Appellant, v. W. Frank SMYTH, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Laughlin, Richmond, Va. (court-assigned counsel) for appellant.

Anderson Jones, pro se, on brief.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia (A. S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges, and FIELD, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, this state prisoner complains of many things. Most of them are properly addressed to the state courts only. One, that he was convicted because of the admission of a coerced confession, would merit inquiry, but apparently this assertion was made for the first time in the District Court.

The petition alleges generally that the successive steps in the state court remedy were taken, but copies of the papers...

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