Legal Opinion
Chewning v. Cunningham
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 19, 1962No. 63PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
Petitioner was sentenced to 10 years in prison under Virginia’s recidivist statute. Va. Code, 1950, § 53-296. This statute provides that when it appears that a person convicted of an offense has been previously sentenced “to a like punishment,” he may be tried on an information that alleges “the existence of records of prior convictions and the identity of the prisoner with the person named in each.” The statute goes on to provide that the prisoner may deny the existence of any such records, or that he is the same person named therein, or both.
If the existence of the records is denied, the…
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