THOMPSON v. PEYTON

No. 12936.

406 F.2d 473 (1968)

Robert Herman THOMPSON, Jr., Appellant, v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

December 19, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No appearance of counsel.

Before BOREMAN, BRYAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Robert Herman Thompson, Jr., seeks a certificate of probable cause to appeal from an order of the district court (Merhige, J.) dismissing his petition for habeas corpus for failure to exhaust available state remedies.

Thompson attacks the validity of two convictions for armed robbery obtained in the Richmond, Virginia, Hustings Court on June 27, 1966. Sentences of fifteen and ten years were imposed. Thompson contends that in each of his trials...

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