Floyd v. Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary

OPINION AND JUDGMENT

DALTON, District Judge.

Louis Ellis Floyd, petitioner, has filed for a writ of habeas corpus challenging his detention pursuant to a judgment entered April 5, 1972 by the Page County Circuit Court. He was convicted in that court of unlawful wounding and sentenced to a term of five years in the Virginia State Penitentiary. He appealed his conviction to the Virginia Supreme Court, which by order dated October 6, 1972 refused his writ of error. Petitioner then filed for a writ of habeas corpus in the Page County Circuit Court, which by order dated July 27, 1973 denied and…