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BROWN v. COX

Civ. A. No. 70-C-117-A.

340 F.Supp. 731 (1972)

Lawrence Edward BROWN, Petitioner, v. James D. COX, Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary (now A. E. Slayton), Respondent.

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

April 4, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Edward Brown, pro se.

James E. Kulp, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., for respondent.

WIDENER, Chief Judge.

The petitioner, Lawrence Edward Brown, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to fifty years in the Virginia State Penitentiary by the Hustings Court of the City of Roanoke on November 5, 1968. He appealed his conviction and sentence to the Virginia Supreme Court, which dismissed the writ of error and supersedeas as having been improvidently awarded. Brown then filed the present petition for habeas corpus in forma pauperis, pursuant...

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