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WILLS v. SLAYTON

Civ. A. No. 73-561-R.

372 F.Supp. 776 (1974)

Ballington B. WILLS, Sr. v. A. E. SLAYTON, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary.

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

March 20, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin P. Hall, Richmond, Va., for plaintiff.

Wilburn C. Dibling, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. of Va., Richmond, Va., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

Petitioner, a state prisoner, seeks habeas corpus relief from detention pursuant to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Sussex County, Virginia, on May 28, 1971, wherein he was sentenced to serve a term of twenty years in the state penitentiary after having been convicted of murder in the second degree. Jurisdiction is attained pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. State court remedies have been exhausted. The case is presently...

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