DUFFIELD v. PEYTON


162 S.E.2d 915 (1968)

209 Va. 178

Loren Neal DUFFIELD v. C. C. PEYTON, Supt., etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 6, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. Eugene Pinion, Norfolk, 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 BUCHANAN, SNEAD, CARRICO, GORDON and HARRISON, JJ.


SNEAD, Justice.

Loren Neal Duffield, petitioner, appealed from an order of the Corporation Court of the City of Norfolk entered September 29, 1966 wherein his petition for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum filed against C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, respondent, was denied and dismissed after a plenary hearing had on June 7, 1966.

Duffield was and is now being detained by respondent pursuant to a judgment order...

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