Legal Opinion
Napier v. Peyton
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided July 10, 1968No. Civ. A. No. 68-C-49-APublished
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND JUDGMENT
DALTON, Chief Judge.
This case comes before this court upon a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in forma pawperis by Fred Napier, a state prisoner of Virginia, pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2241.
Petitioner is currently serving a thirty (30) year prison sentence following his conviction for robbery in the Circuit Court of Wise County, Virginia, on February 10, 1961.
Petitioner subsequently filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of Wise County, Virginia, but said petition was dismissed by said Circuit Court on December 21,1966.
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