WALKER v. MITCHELL

Record Nos. 811936, 812038.

299 S.E.2d 698 (1983)

Michael Randolph WALKER v. J.P. MITCHELL, Warden, Etc. Michael Randolph WALKER v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Mariner, Richmond (Fred A. Talbot, Bremner, Baber & Janus, Richmond, on brief), for appellant.

Jerry P. Slonaker, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Gerald L. Baliles, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellees.

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


CARRICO, Chief Justice.

Michael Randolph Walker is here on two appeals, one a belated direct appeal from his April 19, 1974 conviction and life sentence for first degree murder (Record No. 812038), and the other a regular appeal from a denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in the court below on December 15, 1980 (Record No. 811936). We consolidated the two cases for argument; they present the single question...

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