Legal Opinion
Victor Calvin Whitaker v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 20, 1966No. 10295PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOREMAN, Circuit Judge:
After serving more than ten years of a life sentence for statutory rape, Victor Calvin Whitaker filed his habeas corpus petition in the Maryland District Court in which he charged that he did not re*839ceive effective assistance of counsel during the proceedings which led to his present incarceration. The lower court, erroneously we think, denied relief.
On the morning of July 16, 1954, Whitaker’s wife went to the office of the State’s Attorney for Allegany County, Maryland, and complained that Whitaker had engaged in sexual intercourse with her eleven-year-old daughter by a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Murphy v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1944
- Norfleet Sawyer v. Franklin K. Brough, Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
- Farrell v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1957
3Cited by13 opinions
- Willis Lansing Ganger v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellant(two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- Mickey E. Vanater v. Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- Baker v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1967
- United States Ex Rel. Williamson v. LaValleeDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1968
- James Trent Bray v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent, Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1970
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