William Alfred Walker v. W. Frank Smyth, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
This text of 188 F.2d 160 (William Alfred Walker v. W. Frank Smyth, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
This is an appeal from an order denying an application for a writ of habeas corpus. Pursuant to section 53-296, Code of Virginia, appellant was sentenced to a term of fifteen years by the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond as a repeating offender. All questions raised on appeal are fully answered by the decision of the Supreme Court in Gryger v. Burke, 334 U.S. 728, 68 S.Ct. 1256, 92 L.Ed. 1683; and on the authority of that decision, the order appealed from will be
Affirmed.
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