Legal Opinion
Lewis v. Peyton
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided September 10, 1968No. Civ. A. No. 68-C-29-LPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND JUDGMENT
DALTON, Chief Judge.
This case is before this court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in forma pauperis by Carl Milan Lewis, a state prisoner, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241.
Petitioner is currently serving a sentence of five years in the Virginia State Penitentiary pursuant to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the City of Lynchburg of October 11, 1966, wherein the petitioner was convicted for the crime of statutory burglary. An additional twelve months confinement was imposed on conviction of a court of petit larceny charged in the same indictment. The…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Robert J. Grundler and Joseph L. Jelly v. State of North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1960
- Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Mitchell v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1925
- Allen v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1918
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3Cited by2 opinions
- United States of America Ex Rel. Robert Harris v. State of IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1972
- Eggleston v. SlaytonDistrict Court, W.D. Virginia · 1972