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SMITH v. COX

No. 71-1715.

474 F.2d 563 (1973)

Roy Alphonso SMITH, Appellant, v. J. D. COX, etc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 14, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Anderson, Jr., Durham, N.C. (Court-appointed counsel) (Loflin, Anderson & Loflin, Durham, N. C., on brief], for appellant.

William A. Carter, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., of Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Before BOREMAN, WINTER, and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The district court denied habeas corpus relief to Roy Alphonso Smith who alleged that his sixth amendment right to a speedy trial was denied him when, during a period of twelve months incarceration at the Lorton Reformatory, the Commonwealth of Virginia declined to act upon his repeated written requests that he be tried on pending state charges. The Lorton incarceration began in August, 1965, after conviction in the District of Columbia for housebreaking...

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