Legal Opinion
Thomas Carlton Wansley v. A. E. Slayton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 8, 1973No. 73-1151PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner is a state prisoner, convicted of rape and robbery in the Corporation Court of Lynchburg, Virginia, in March, 1967. The alleged offense occurred in December, 1962. The petitioner had been tried twice earlier. At the first trial in February, 1963, he was convicted but his conviction was reversed by the Virginia Supreme Court. Wansley v. Commonwealth (1964) 205 Va. 419, 137 S.E.2d 870. 1 The second trial on the robbery charge in October, 1966, resulted in a mistrial. In this third trial, held almost five years after his alleged offense, the petitioner was…
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