Legal Opinion
St. Clair v. Cox
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided March 18, 1970No. Civ. A. 70-C-13-RPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and JUDGMENT
DALTON, Chief Judge.
This case comes before the court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in forma pauperis by Lucian D. St.Clair, a state prisoner, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. The petition was filed with this court on January 23, 1970.
Petitioner is currently serving a sentence of eighteen years in the Virginia State Penitentiary, pursuant to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the City of Roanoke, imposed on December 28, 1955, for murder in the second degree. Petitioner entered a plea of guilty and was tried by a judge without a jury.
Belatedly on May 30,…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Kercheval v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Halliday v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Russell Judas Nelson v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1969
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3Cited by19 opinions
- United States v. Richard MariCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
- Younger v. CoxDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1971
- Hancock v. SlaytonDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1972
- Stokes v. SlaytonDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1972
- Burton v. CoxDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1970
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