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MARTIN v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA

No. 9613.

349 F.2d 781 (1965)

James Edward MARTIN, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Honorable Robert Y. Button, Attorney General of Virginia, and Charles P. Chew, James W. Phillips and Pleasant Shields, members of the Virginia Parole Board, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 5, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald P. Sokol (Court-assigned counsel), Charlottesville, Va., for appellant.

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

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF, BOREMAN, BRYAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge.

In June, 1960, James E. Martin was convicted in the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia, of second-degree murder and sentenced to imprisonment for fifteen years. He concedes the validity of the conviction and sentence. Had this been his only conviction, he would have become eligible for consideration for parole in 1963. However, while serving his sentence, Martin escaped from a prison camp and was thereafter convicted of escape...

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