Webster v. Peyton

MEMORANDUM ORDER

KELLAM, District Judge.

Petitioner asserts that at his trial before the Court without a jury in the Corporation Court of Norfolk, Virginia, upon charges of (1) rape and (2) malicious wounding, “he was denied due process of law by the admission into evidence of the testimony of a witness whose testimony was incompetent” because it was not shown she understood “the meaning or consequence of an oath, whose testimony was contradictory and inherently incredible, and whose testimony was * * * partly founded upon the prompting and coaching of others.” The record and transcript of the…