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CREASY v. McCONNELL

Civ. A. No. 66-C-93-R.

262 F.Supp. 697 (1966)

Hazel Newby CREASY, Petitioner, v. Grady A. McCONNELL, Sheriff of Montgomery County and Evelyn LEAKE, Superintendent of the Virginia Industrial Farm for Women, Respondents.

United States District Court W. D. Virginia, Roanoke Division.

December 2, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Goldsmith, Goldsmith & Jenkins, Radford, Va., for petitioner.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondents.

OPINION and JUDGMENT

DALTON, District Judge.

This case comes before the Court upon a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by Hazel Newby Creasy, a state prisoner, pursuant to the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2241.

The petitioner is presently serving a sentence of twenty (20) years for first degree murder; said sentence having been imposed by the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Virginia, on February 26, 1966. She was confined to the Montgomery...

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