Legal Opinion
Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 8, 1963No. 8650_1PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
A state prisoner here seeks release on habeas corpus, claiming that he was placed on trial in the Virginia courts despite an uncontroverted showing that he was insane. The District Court dismissed the petition without a hearing but granted a certificate of probable cause for this appeal, “being of the opinion that a substantial question with regard to the allegations of insanity is presented.”
Nathan Thomas alleged that he was indicted in Buchanan County, Virginia, In 1955 on five unrelated charges of grand larceny and one charge of removing stolen property into the…
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