Commonwealth v. Beavers

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Page county, entered on the 17th day of June, 1927, in a habeas corpus proceeding wherein Alvin Beavers, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was the petitioner, and the Commonwealth of Virginia, R. M. Youell, Superintendent of the State Penitentiary, and C. A. Coleman, sergeant of convict camp No. 10, then located in Page county, hereinafter referred to as petitioners, were respondents. Alvin Beavers, the defendant, had been convicted on the 15th day of April, 1926, in the Circuit Court of Prince William county of a felony, for…