Legal Opinion
Durham v. Cox
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided July 16, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 69-C-25-HPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WIDENER, District Judge.
On an afternoon late in February, 1963, Mrs. Waltine Hoover and her mother, Mrs. E. M. Snow, were stabbed to death in their home near Double Toll Gate in Frederick County, Virginia. Seven months later, Luther Durham, Jr., petitioner, was arrested in King George County, Virginia on a charge of breaking and entering. In the weeks following his arrest, Durham implicated himself and others in numerous housebreakings throughout Virginia. Between October, 1963 and May, 1964, he was convicted in five Virginia counties upon his pleas of guilty to charges of breaking and…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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