Legal Opinion
Cooper v. Peyton
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided December 23, 1968No. Civ. A. No. 68-C-63-RPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND JUDGMENT
DALTON, Chief Judge.
Harrison C. Cooper, Jr., the petitioner, was convicted of second degree murder in the Hustings Court of Roanoke, Virginia, on March 30, 1965. His ap*22peal from that conviction by writ of error to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia was denied. Claiming that his conviction was illegally obtained, the petitioner sought habeas corpus relief in the state courts under Va.Code Ann. §§ 8-596 — 8-609 (1950). After a full hearing on the matter, the trial court denied the writ, and the Supreme Court of Appeals affirmed this ruling. Cooper has exhausted his…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Mellott Faust v. State of North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1962
- Samuele T. Stevens, Jr. v. Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- Brown v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1890
- Stuart W. Newsom v. W. Frank Smyth, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1958
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Wilson v. CoxDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1970
- Tingler v. CoxDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1970
- Tolliver v. CoxDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1970
- Kirby v. CoxDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1970