Legal Opinion
Chittum v. Cunningham
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided August 18, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 71-C-71Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and JUDGMENT
DALTON, District Judge.
This ease comes before the Court upon a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in forma, pauperis by Alvin *763Junior Chittum, a state prisoner, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 2241. The petition was filed with this Court on June 11, 1971.
Petitioner is currently serving sentences totalling thirteen years in the Virginia state prison system pursuant to judgment of the Circuit Court of Roanoke County, imposed on September 13, 1968, for two counts of kidnapping and one of attempted rape. At his trial petitioner, represented by counsel, entered pleas of…
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- Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
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