Legal Opinion
Clyde Raymond Near v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 7, 1963No. 8713_1PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a denial by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia of a petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
On December 8, 1958, Clyde Raymond Near, the petitioner, was indicted for murder by the grand jury of Powhatan County, Virginia. On January 6, 1959, an attorney was appointed to represent petitioner. Trial was held in the Circuit Court of Powhatan County on May 26 and 27, 1959. The jury found Near guilty of murder in the first degree, and fixed punishment at death. On August 4, 1959, the Circuit Court of Powhatan County, after…
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