Legal Opinion
Stonebreaker v. Smyth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 1, 1948No. Record No. 3350PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHudgins, C. J.
Petitioner is held in custody of respondent under three sentences imposed by the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News on November 17, 1931, and one sentence imposed by the Circuit Court of Warwick county* on November 16, 1931. Each sentence was made on a plea of guilty to four separate indictments charging armed robbery of four different persons at different times. The aggregate period of confinement of the four sentences is 58 years.
In 1943 petitioner, on a writ of habeas corpus, attacked the legality of his detention on the ground that when he entered his pleas of guilty to the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Claude O. Jones, Jr. v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Hawks v. CoxSupreme Court of Virginia · 1970
- Willie L. Short, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
- Lewis v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
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