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DAVIS v. SMYTH

No. 1794.

65 F.Supp. 313 (1945)

DAVIS v. SMYTH.

District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

December 5, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. A. Hall, Jr., of Richmond, Va., for appellant.

M. Ray Doubles, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia (Abram P. Staples, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, on the brief), for appellee.

POLLARD, District Judge.

The petitioner, Willie Davis, filed in this Court on November 16, 1945, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was being restrained of his liberty by the respondent, the Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, under a judgment of a circuit court of the Commonwealth of Virginia entered in violation of the petitioner's rights under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United...

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