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HOFFLER v. PEYTON

149 S.E.2d 893 (1966)

Hubert HOFFLER v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary. Ruben PIERCE v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 9, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. R. Ryder, Richmond, Ronald P. Sokol, Charlottesville, for plaintiff in error, Hubert Hoffler.

R. R. Ryder, Richmond (Ronald P. Sokol, Charlottesville, on brief), for plaintiff in error, Ruben Pierce.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen., James Parker Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

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

EGGLESTON, Chief Justice.

Hubert Hoffler and Ruben Pierce filed petitions for writs of habeas corpus, claiming that their judgments of conviction of robbery in the Circuit Court of the city of Suffolk on April 15, 1963 were void because of ineffective representation by counsel. The cases were heard together and writs were denied. We granted a writ of error in each case and they are before us on a single printed record.

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