Griffin v. Cunningham

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Han over county, wherein a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by Leon S. Griffin, sometimes called the petitioner, against W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, sometimes referred to as respondent, was denied and dismissed.

Five trials in the Circuit Court of Hanover county are involved. No evidence produced in any of those trials has been made a part of the record. Consequently, all questions of fact resolved by the trial court must be accepted as conclusive. A recital of each stage in the…