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DAWSON v. PEYTON

No. 10313.

359 F.2d 149 (1966)

Edgar W. DAWSON, Appellant, v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Larry Lambert, Norfolk, Va. (Court-assigned counsel), (Preston & Preston, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellant.

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

Before SOBELOFF and BELL, Circuit Judges, and HUTCHESON, District Judge.

STERLING HUTCHESON, District Judge.

This is a petition for habeas corpus filed in forma pauperis in the District Court at Norfolk by Petitioner who is an inmate of the Virginia State Penitentiary. Petitioner complains of a conviction in the Circuit Court of Greene County, Virginia on September 18, 1961. He alleges that he was arrested and placed in jail without a warrant, that he was not apprehended at the scene of the crime; that he was held incommunicado, that he...

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