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WARD v. PEYTON

No. 9955.

349 F.2d 359 (1965)

Robert WARD, Appellant, v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 2, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert J. Lilly, Jr., Richmond, Va. (Court-assigned counsel), for appellant.

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

Before BOREMAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, District Judge.

THOMSEN, District Judge.

Petitioner (Ward), was convicted of second degree murder in the Hustings Court for the City of Petersburg in 1960, and was sentenced to a term of twenty years. He filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court, which was denied after a hearing at which Ward was represented by his present court-appointed counsel. The appeal from that order raises two points: (1) whether Ward's constitutional rights were infringed by the...

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