Legal Opinion
Hunt v. Haga
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided November 6, 1973No. Civ. A. No. 73-C-127-RPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and JUDGMENT
DALTON, District Judge.
David Jerome Hunt, who is being detained in the Patrick Henry Correctional Unit, Ridgeway, Virginia, brings this case before the court upon a petition filed in forma pauperis for a writ of habeas corpus. Hunt is being detained pursuant to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the City of Roanoke (formerly the Hustings Court of the City of Roanoke), Virginia, of May 3, 1972, wherein he was convicted of robbery and sentenced to twenty years in the Virginia State Penitentiary.
*528Petitioner appealed his conviction to the Virginia Supreme Court by way of a…
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