Legal Opinion
John Lewis Snead v. W. Frank Smyth, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 16, 1959No. 7964PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
John Lewis Snead appeals from the dismissal by the District Court of his petition for habeas corpus, wherein he sought release from prison on the ground that he was illegally detained in the Virginia State Penitentiary under a void judgment of the Circuit Court of Albe-marle County, Virginia, which sentenced him to imprisonment for five years upon a conviction of grand larceny. His principal contentions are that the State court lacked jurisdiction of his case because (1) the indictment was void and (2) his attorney failed to raise certain questions at the trial and…
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