Legal Opinion
Jesse Root v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 26, 1965No. 9606PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHRISTIE, District Judge.
This is an appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 2253 by Jesse Root from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, entered on July 6, 1964, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In his petition before the district court he claimed that the judgment entered by the Circuit Court of Accomack County, Virginia, on October 12, 1954, committing him to eighteen years imprisonment for statutory burglary, was unlawful and void. We find the appeal to be without merit.
Appellant’s principal contentions on this appeal are:(1) Whether the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Snyder v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- John Lewis Snead v. W. Frank Smyth, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1959
- Palmer v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1925
- Clyde Raymond Near v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Williams v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1948
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3Cited by87 opinions
- Thomas Lorenzo Williams v. Dr. George Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance CompanyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
- Victor Dennis Marzullo v. State of MarylandCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1977
- Willis Lansing Ganger v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellant(two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- George Earl Larson v. Robert Tansy, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1990
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