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BOWLING v. SLAYTON

Civ. A. No. 72-C-11-D.

344 F.Supp. 650 (1972)

Leonard Overton BOWLING and William Harrison Allen, Petitioners, v. A. E. SLAYTON, Jr., Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary, Respondent.

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

July 11, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. L. Williams, Danville, Va., for petitioners.

Burnett Miller, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., for respondent.

OPINION

WIDENER, Chief Judge.

On June 8, 1971, the petitioners were convicted of statutory burglary of the United States Post Office in Danville by the Corporation Court of the City of Danville. The building is owned privately and leased to the United States. They were sentenced to serve twenty years' confinement in the Virginia State Penitentiary. They appealed their conviction to the Supreme Court of Virginia...

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