Legal Opinion
Bird v. Peyton
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided June 21, 1968No. Civ. A. No. 68-C-45-RPublishedCited by 3 opinions
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 George Bird, a state prisoner of Virginia, pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C.A. § 2241.
Petitioner is currently serving a twenty (20) year sentence in the Virginia State Penitentiary following his conviction on January 19, 1967, in the Circuit Court of Giles County, Virginia, for statutory rape. After his conviction, petitioner filed a timely petition for a writ of error and supersedeas with the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, but said…
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