INGRAM v. PEYTON

No. 10517.

367 F.2d 933 (1966)

Zackus H. INGRAM, Appellant, v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Whitehead Elmore, Richmond, Va. (Court-assigned counsel), (Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell & Gibson, Richmond, Va., on brief) for appellant.

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

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge, and HEMPHILL, District Judge.


SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from the District Court's denial of an application for a writ of habeas corpus by Zackus H. Ingram, who was tried jointly with a codefendant and convicted by a jury on July 13, 1948 in the Corporation Court of the City of Danville, Virginia. The charge was robbing a night watchman of $6.00 in cash and a billfold valued at $2.50, and the sentence was 20 years in the penitentiary. Both...

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