Legal Opinion
Leftwich v. Coiner
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 1, 1970No. Nos. 13755, 13758-9PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BUTZNER, Circuit Judge.
In Sheftic v. Boles, 377 F.2d 423 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 986, 88 S.Ct. 476, 19 L.Ed.2d 479 (1967), we held that a West Virginia prisoner exhausted his state court remedies under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 1 when he filed an original petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and that court denied relief. The prisoner was then entitled, we ruled, to apply for the writ in a federal district court. The question presented by these appeals is whether the 1967 amendments to West Virginia’s habeas corpus statutes have so changed the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Case v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Sheftic v. BolesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- Kidd v. CoinerDistrict Court, N.D. West Virginia · 1969
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