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Farmer v. Cox

District Court, W.D. Virginia

Decided January 2, 1970No. Civ. A. No. 68-C-51-L(C)PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

WIDENER, District Judge.

This is the fourth petition of Raymond Wesley Farmer for habeas corpus to relieve him of a May 12, 1958, conviction in the Circuit Court of Campbell County for first degree murder which petitioner now styles as without premeditation but which seems to the court to be a brutal murder of a harmless, sick woman.

Farmer’s parents employed counsel for him in the criminal trial, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment on a guilty plea.

He filed a petition for habeas corpus which was fully heard in the Circuit Court of Campbell County, May 17, 1966, and denied with a…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Sanders v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Willis Lansing Ganger v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellant(two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
  4. Macon v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1948
  5. State v. ThavanotSupreme Court of Missouri · 1910

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. State v. BrittSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1977
  2. Robert Lee Ferguson v. J. D. Cox, Superintendent, Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1972

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