HUNT v. COX

Civ. A. No. 84-69-R.

312 F.Supp. 637 (1970)

Roy Sylvester HUNT v. J. D. COX, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

April 21, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Sylvester Hunt, pro se.

Reno S. Harp, III, Richmond, Va., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

Roy Sylvester Hunt was convicted by a jury in the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia, of first degree murder on May 18, 1967. He now alleges constitutional error in that trial and seeks his release by habeas corpus.

Hunt asserts three defects in his conviction. First, he objects to an investigating police officer's testimony concerning in-custody admissions. Secondly, he attacks the admissibility...

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