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FORD v. PEYTON

163 S.E.2d 314 (1968)

209 Va. 203

Ernest Clifton FORD v. C. C. PEYTON, Supt., etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

September 6, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter O. Ward, Jr., Richmond (Hunton, Williams, Gay, Powell & Gibson, Richmond, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

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

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

I'ANSON, Justice.

On December 7, 1953, Ernest Clifton Ford, represented by court-appointed counsel, was convicted on six charges of statutory burglary and one charge of common law burglary and was sentenced to confinement in the State penitentiary for a total of 26 years. On February 14, 1964, Ford filed in the court below a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging ineffective representation by counsel and thus a denial of due process in his 1953 trial. After...

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