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FARMER v. COX

Civ. A. No. 68-C-51-L(C).

308 F.Supp. 914 (1970)

Raymond Wesley FARMER, Petitioner, v. J. D. COX, Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary (Formerly C. C. Peyton), Respondent.

United States District Court W. D. Virginia, Charlottesville Division.

January 2, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Musselman, Charlottesville, Va., for petitioner.

W. Luke Witt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., for respondent.

OPINION

WIDENER, District Judge.

This is the fourth petition of Raymond Wesley Farmer for habeas corpus to relieve him of a May 12, 1958, conviction in the Circuit Court of Campbell County for first degree murder which petitioner now styles as without premeditation but which seems to the court to be a brutal murder of a harmless, sick woman.

Farmer's parents employed counsel for him in the criminal trial, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment...

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