Legal Opinion
Vernon E. Goodson v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 25, 1965No. 9697_1PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:
Goodson, a Virginia prisoner, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Powhatan County of an escape from imprisonment. He received a three-year sentence on the escape charge, which he now attacks upon the ground that his court-appointed lawyer was the Commonwealth’s Attorney for neighboring Cumberland County.
Council Opinion No. 2, reported in the Twenty-second Annual Report of the Virginia State Bar, records the history in Virginia of representation by Commonwealth’s Attorneys of criminal defendants being tried in a county other than the one principally served by the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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