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MORRIS v. SMYTH

120 S.E.2d 465 (1961)

202 Va. 832

John Linwood MORRIS v. W. Frank SMYTH, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

June 12, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Linwood Morris, in pro. per.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (A. S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, WHITTLE. SNEAD, I'ANSON and CARRICO, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

In February, 1960, John Linwood Morris, an inmate of the Virginia State Penitentiary at Richmond, filed in the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond, Part II, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus attacking the validity of his detention in the State Penitentiary under a judgment of conviction in the Hustings Court of the city of Richmond on June 13, 1958, upon an indictment for rape and two indictments for...

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