Legal Opinion
Bowling v. Slayton
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided July 11, 1972No. Civ. A. No. 72-C-11-DPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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WIDENER, Chief Judge.
On June 8, 1971, the petitioners were convicted of statutory burglary of the United States Post Office in Danville by the Corporation Court of the City of Danville. The building is owned privately and leased to the United States. They were sentenced to serve twenty years’ confinement in the Virginia State Penitentiary. They appealed their conviction to the Supreme Court of Virginia, which, on January 17, 1972, rejected their petition for a writ of error and supersedeas.
On February 8, 1972, the petitioners filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in this court.…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Pennsylvania v. NelsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Cross v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Jack Martin Farley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- United States Ex Rel. Holly v. Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1948
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3Cited by2 opinions
- O'NEAL v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
- Killough v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982