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PRUITT v. PEYTON

165 S.E.2d 288 (1969)

209 Va. 532

Allen Carroll PRUITT v. C. C. PEYTON, Supt., etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

January 20, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Lee Bailey, Boston, Mass. (Harold Goodman, Norfolk, Charles M. Burnim, Boston, Mass., on brief), 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 SNEAD, I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON and HARRISON, JJ.

CARRICO, Justice.

On May 25, 1964, Allen Carroll Pruitt, the petitioner, filed in the court below a petition for a writ of habeas corpus against C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, the respondent. In his petition, Pruitt attacked the validity of his conviction by the lower court on August 31, 1953, of robbery and of murder in the first degree and prayed that the two life sentences imposed upon...

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