Legal Opinion
Arthur A. Hall, Jr. v. Arthur L. McKenzie Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 28, 1976No. 75-2250PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
Arthur A. Hall, Jr., a male then in his early twenties who was convicted of the non-forcible rape of a then thirteen-year-old female, sought a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that the West Virginia statute under which he was convicted and sentenced to a term of not less than ten nor more than twenty years violated the eighth and fourteenth amendments. The district court denied the writ, holding the statute constitutionally unobjectionable in its application to defendant, and we affirm.
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The statute in question, West Virginia Code § 61-2-15, 1 covers a variety of…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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3Cited by29 opinions
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