Legal Opinion
Hanson v. Smyth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided November 20, 1944No. Record No. 2909PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEggleston, J.
This writ of error was awarded to Jerome Silvia Hanson to review a judgment of the lower court dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and ordering his remand to the custody of W. Frank Smyth, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary.
The petitioner has been held for a number of years in the penitentiary pursuant to several judgments of conviction which we will not undertake to recite in detail. Suffice it to say, that the Attorney General concedes that if -the petitioner be correct in his contention that the judgment entered by the Circuit Court of Lunenburg county,…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Pointer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Pine v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1917
- Sandy White v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- State v. HeatonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1883
- Farewell v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1937
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Snyder v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1961
- John Lewis Snead v. W. Frank Smyth, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1959
- Livingston v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1946
- Royster v. SmithSupreme Court of Virginia · 1953
- Smyth v. MorrisonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1959
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