Legal Opinion
Hancock v. Brown, Director
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided September 1, 1971No. Record No. 7704PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court 1
212 Va. 215 (1971)
JOHN S. HANCOCK
v.
JAMES D. COX, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE VIRGINIA STATE PENITENTIARY (OTIS L. BROWN, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS, SUBSTITUTED RESPONDENT).
Record No. 7704.
Supreme Court of Virginia.
September 1, 1971.
Present, All the Justices.
Statutory scheme, recently repealed in part and amended prospectively, which provided for deprivation of liberty or restriction on freedom of movement lacked definition of "alcoholic" and therefore lacked constitutional requirements of definiteness and certainty. Original jurisdiction writ of habeas corpus will issue…
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- Den Ex Dem Drake v. DrakeSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1833
- Caldwell v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1956
- Peacock v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1959
- Hancock v. CoxSupreme Court of Virginia · 1971
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Sharp v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1972