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COLEMAN v. SMYTH

No. 7729.

260 F.2d 518 (1958)

Ferber J. COLEMAN, Appellant, v. W. Frank SMYTH, Jr., Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 10, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Laughlin, Richmond, Va., for appellant. Ferber J. Coleman, pro se, on the brief.

Thomas M. Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia (A. S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Virginia, on the brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and HARRY E. WATKINS, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

The defendant was tried and convicted upon a charge of murder in the Circuit Court of Culpeper County, Virginia. Thereafter he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of Clifton Forge, Virginia. The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia denied a writ of error in an order in which it is recited that a transcript of the proceedings had been reviewed. The Supreme Court denied certiorari....

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