Lawrence Furman Smith v. James D. Cox, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by a state prisoner incarcerated for an aggregate term of twenty-eight years for conviction of robbery and larceny upon his pleas of guilty. After available state remedies had been denied, the writ was sought from the district judge, who found no merit in the contentions that the petitioner had been placed in double jeopardy by reason of conviction of both offenses, that petitioner’s pleas of guilty were accepted without proper warning to him of their effect or proper inquiry as to whether he understood his…