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DURHAM v. COX

Civ. A. No. 69-C-25-H.

328 F.Supp. 1157 (1971)

Luther DURHAM, Jr., Petitioner, v. J. D. COX, Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary, Respondent.

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

July 16, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Sloan Kuykendall, E. William Chapman, Winchester, Va., for petitioner.

C. Tabor Cronk, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., for respondent.

OPINION

WIDENER, District Judge.

On an afternoon late in February, 1963, Mrs. Waltine Hoover and her mother, Mrs. E. M. Snow, were stabbed to death in their home near Double Toll Gate in Frederick County, Virginia. Seven months later, Luther Durham, Jr., petitioner, was arrested in King George County, Virginia on a charge of breaking and entering. In the weeks following his arrest, Durham implicated himself and others in numerous housebreakings throughout...

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