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WILLIAMS v. PEYTON

160 S.E.2d 581 (1968)

Willie Lee WILLIAMS v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

April 22, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay M. Ball, 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, I'ANSON, GORDON and HARRISON, JJ.

BUCHANAN, Justice.

In June, 1966, Willie Lee Williams, herein referred to as petitioner, filed in the Corporation Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in which he alleged that he was being unlawfully held and restrained by the Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, pursuant to an order of said court entered on August 26, 1964, by which he was sentenced to serve a term of eight years in the penitentiary for armed robbery.

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