Legal Opinion
Owsley v. Cunningham
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided January 27, 1961No. Misc. 3450PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District J udge.
Petitioner, a state prisoner having exhausted his state court remedies, seeks relief by way of habeas corpus in this Court. The facts are not in dispute and, from the petition, we learn that petitioner was convicted by different juries in separate trials for robbery and murder on January 10, 1957, and May 1, 1957, respectively. In each case a verdict of life imprisonment was imposed by the jury, and the sentence followed. The trials were conducted in the Circuit Court of Rockingham County, Virginia, and no appeal on the merits was sought from said final…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Snyder v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Bishop v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- United States Ex Rel. Smith v. BaldiSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- V. P. Serodino, Inc. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- W. C. Dodd v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
- Harlan Lynn Noble v. Maurice Sigler, Warden, Nebraska State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
- Nelson v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1968
- Whittlesey v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1992
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