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WHITING v. CHEW

No. 7975.

273 F.2d 885 (1960)

James R. WHITING, Appellant, v. Charles P. CHEW, Director, Parole Board, Richmond, Virginia, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Whiting, pro se, on brief.

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

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

A prisoner in the Ohio State Penitentiary, James R. Whiting, filed a petition seeking a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, naming Charles P. Chew, the Director of the Virginia Parole Board, as defendant. The District Court dismissed the petition, and Whiting appeals.

The allegations of the petition are meagre, and do not clearly disclose the grounds upon which the writ is sought...

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