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OWSLEY v. CUNNINGHAM

Misc. No. 3450.

190 F.Supp. 608 (1961)

Lon O. OWSLEY, Petitioner, v. W. K. CUNNINGHAM, Jr., Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

January 27, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lon O. Owsley, pro se.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge.

Petitioner, a state prisoner having exhausted his state court remedies, seeks relief by way of habeas corpus in this Court. The facts are not in dispute and, from the petition, we learn that petitioner was convicted by different juries in separate trials for robbery and murder on January 10, 1957, and May 1, 1957, respectively. In each case a verdict of life imprisonment was imposed by the jury, and the sentence followed. The trials...

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