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STOKES v. PEYTON

147 S.E.2d 773 (1966)

207 Va. 1

Rufus STOKES v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

April 25, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Willard Norwood, Richmond, for plaintiff in error.

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

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

SPRATLEY, Justice.

This is an appeal by Rufus Stokes from an order of the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond entered on September 3, 1964, denying and dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, by which he sought release from a sentence of life imprisonment imposed on him by the same court [Huntley, J.] on October 24, 1963 for murder.

The only substantial questions presented are: (1) whether Stokes had the effective assistance of counsel...

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