IN RE COM., DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

Record No. 810667.

281 S.E.2d 857 (1981)

In re COMMONWEALTH of Virginia, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., James E. Kulp, Deputy Atty. Gen., Jerry P. Slonaker, Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

James C. Roberts, Richmond, Edward L. Hogshire, T. Munford Boyd, Charlottesville, Anthony F. Troy, David G. Shuford, Murray J. Janus, Dennis W. Dohnal, Theodore I. Brenner, Robert G. Cabell, Jr., C. Michael DeCamps, Ralph B. Robertson, Michael Morchower, Richmond, Francis L. Buck, Charlottesville, Mays, Valentine, Davenport & Moore, Bremner, Baber & Janus, Cabell, Paris, Lowenstein & Bareford, Morchower & Associates, Richmond, Paxson, Smith, Boyd, Gilliam & Gouldman, P.C., Bailes & Buck, Ltd., Charlottesville, for respondents.

Before CARRICO, C. J., and HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON and STEPHENSON, JJ.


COCHRAN, Justice.

On April 28, 1981, the Department of Corrections of the Commonwealth of Virginia (the Department) filed its petition in this Court for a writ of prohibition to be directed to the Honorable J. R. Snoddy, Jr., Judge of the Circuit Court of Cumberland County, and to that court, to prohibit the judge and the court from enforcing orders heretofore entered suspending the sentences of three convicted felons, co-defendants Larry Noel Sherman, Daniel Curry...

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