Legal Opinion
Kerns v. Peyton
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided August 20, 1968No. Civ. A. 68-C-62-APublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and JUDGMENT
DALTON, Chief Judge.
This proceeding comes before the court on a petition for habeas corpus filed in forma pauperis by Joe Neal Kerns, a prisoner of the State of Virginia, pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C.A. § 2241.
Petitioner is presently serving a sentence for twenty years in the Virginia State Penitentiary pursuant to his conviction on January 22, 1960, in the Circuit Court of Scott County, Virginia, for murder in the first degree. Petitioner did not appeal from the conviction, but subsequently sought a writ of habeas corpus in the State Court on the same grounds…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Snyder v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1961
- James C. Dillard v. Lynn Bomar, Warden, Tennessee State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1965
- Gary Lee Tompa v. Commonwealth of Virginia Ex Rel. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Ingram v. CoxDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1970
- Graham v. GathrightDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1972
- Newman v. PeytonDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1969
- Couser v. CoxDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1971