SNEAD, Justice.
On July 1, 1964, James E. Fields, sometimes hereinafter referred to as defendant, filed in the court below a petition for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum in which he claimed that he was being unlawfully detained by C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary. He made the customary and often abused claim for relief, i. e., that he was denied due process of law because he was not afforded effective assistance by his...
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