Goodwin v. Smyth, Superintendent of Virginia State Penitentiary

This is an appeal from an order denying a writ of habeas corpus. Appellant was convicted of the crime of rape and sentenced to a term of imprisonment by a court of the State of Virginia. He sought writ of error to review his conviction but' this was denied by the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State. He then applied for writ of habeas corpus to a state judge and asked to be released from imprisonment on the ground that his conviction and sentence were void in that they had been obtained by the use of perjured testimony on his trial. The state' judge to whom application was made sustained…