Legal Opinion
Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 23, 1964No. 9324_1PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Per curiam
The District Court upon remand after the first appeal, Thomas v. Cunningham, 313 F.2d 934 (4 Cir. 1963), granted Nathan Thomas a full and complete hearing on his petition for habeas corpus. An order was then passed requiring petitioner’s jailor, the Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, to release him unless the State within 60 days “elects to retry him or perfects its appeal”. On that appeal we affirm.
As the prior opinion narrates in some detail, Thomas was convicted upon pleas of guilty on July 22, 1955 in the Circuit Court of Buchanan County, Virginia of six larcenous…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Jones v. CunninghamSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Darr v. BurfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Frisbie v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
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3Cited by47 opinions
- Carafas v. LaValleeSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Rowe v. PeytonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- Edward Lewis Robinson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
- Patton v. State of North CarolinaDistrict Court, W.D. North Carolina · 1966
- James D. Booker v. State of ArkansasCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
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