Legal Opinion
Rufus Stokes v. Courtland C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 4, 1970No. 13233PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:
Rufus Stokes appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas cor pus. For reasons to be developed, we agree with petitioner that he is entitled to relief and we reverse.
Earl Prince and Rufus Stokes were enemies of long standing. Rosetta Monroe was Prince’s paramour and the mother of his 14-year-old daughter, Cecelia Prince, but apparently she had also, at one time, carried on a relationship with Stokes. This was the source of friction between the two men. Stokes had been attacked twice by Prince — on one occasion he was cut in the leg; on the other he was…
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