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- Title: Morrison v. Smyth
- Author : United States Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 04, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 50 KB
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Harry Morrison petitioned the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for a writ of habeas corpus on July 17, 1959, and this is his appeal from the order of that court dismissing his petition. Morrison had been convicted on December 14, 1948, in the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia, as a fourth offender under the Virginia recidivist statute, Code of Virginia, 1950, § 53-296, and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. His petition for habeas corpus rests upon the ground that three of the four prior convictions were invalid, and therefore he could not be lawfully convicted as a fourth offender.