HAILEY v. DORSEY

No. 77-1634.

580 F.2d 112 (1978)

Linda Patrice HAILEY, Appellant, v. William B. DORSEY, Sheriff of the City of Williamsburg, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided July 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. W. Tucker, Richmond, Va. (James W. Benton, Jr., Hill, Tucker & Marsh, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellant.

K. Marshall Cook, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Anthony F. Troy, Atty. Gen. of Va., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and WIDENER, Circuit Judge.


WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought to challenge the legality of a jail sentence given a juvenile offender.

The appellant, Linda Patrice Hailey, was found "not innocent" of assault and battery, on one of her teachers, by the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court for the County of James City, Virginia. That court entered a judgment in which it found that "the defendant cannot be controlled...

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