James Terry v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary

WIDENER, District Judge:

This case comes on appeal from an order of the District Court denying relief from conviction by way of writ of habeas corpus.

On November 4, 1965, appellant James Terry was convicted of robbery following a non-jury trial in the Hustings Court of the City of Petersburg, Virginia. The Supreme Court of Appeals denied a petition for writ of error on April 26, 1967. Subsequently, Terry petitioned the trial court for a writ of habeas corpus. Relief was denied and the Supreme Court of Appeals refused a writ of error to that judgment. The District Court denied Terry’s present…