Legal Opinion
Fant v. Peyton
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided August 11, 1969No. Civ. A. No. 69-C-24-DPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*458OPINION and JUDGMENT
DALTON, Chief Judge.
This proceeding comes before the court on a petition for habeas corpus filed in forma pawperis by Hurstell Fant a prisoner of the State of Virginia pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C.A. § 2241.
Petitioner Fant is presently serving a five year sentence in the Virginia State Penitentiary pursuant to his conviction on April 10, 1968, in the Circuit Court of Henry County, Virginia, for breaking and entering. The conviction resulted after a trial by judge and jury in which the petitioner, represented by court-appointed counsel, entered a plea of not…
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- Enoch v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1925
- Walter Darrell Morris v. Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- McCoy v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1965
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- Yarborough v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1977
- United States v. Bobby Eugene HardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1973
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