Clark v. Peyton

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Hustings Court of the City of Roanoke denying and dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by Robert Lee Clark in which he attacked the validity of a judgment of the same court entered on June 13, 1963, convicting him of attempted extortion and sentencing him to a term of ten years in the State Penitentiary. The court appointed Charles H. Osterhoudt, an experienced member of the bar, to represent the petitioner in the prosecution of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus and this appeal.

The petition for a writ of habeas corpus attacked…