TYSON v. HENING


136 S.E.2d 832 (1964)

205 Va. 389

Roy David TYSON v. Edmund W. HENING, Jr., et al., etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

June 15, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Ballard Baker, Richmond, for petitioner.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen, (Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen, on brief), for respondents.

Before EGGLESTON, Chief Justice, and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, WHITTLE, SNEAD, I'ANSON and CARRICO, Justices.


SNEAD, Justice.

Under Code, § 53-2961, petitioner, Roy David Tyson, a convict in the Virginia State Penitentiary, was on December 14, 1960, tried and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a term of one year by the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond upon an information which alleged that he had been convicted of felonies on three occasions and had been received in the penitentiary on two occasions. At the recidivist hearing...

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