Legal Opinion
Stonebreaker v. Smyth
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 20, 1947No. 5604PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order discharging a writ of habeas corpus and dismissing the petition for the writ. Petitioner is incarcerated in the Virginia State *499Penitentiary under three sentences of the Corporation Court of the City of Newport News, Virginia, imposed in the year 1931 upon pleas of guilty by petitioner to three indictments charging armed robbery.
In 1943 petitioner by petition for writ of habeas corpus in the courts of Virginia attacked the judgment and sentences under which he was imprisoned, on the ground that he had been denied the due process of law…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Salinger v. LoiselSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
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3Cited by38 opinions
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- United States of America Ex Rel. Oliver S. Smith v. J. Vernal Jackson, Warden of Clinton PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1956
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