Caudill v. Peyton

On November 21, 1966, George Hugh Caudill, petitioner, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum in the Circuit Court of the County of Tazewell. He alleged that he was being illegally detained by C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, defendant, on a judgment order of conviction for murder in the first degree entered February 4, 1960 and an order sentencing him for the offense entered on March 11, 1960. He asserted that the orders were void because he was not afforded a public trial guaranteed him under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the…