Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit October 28, 1965, 10017 (Ernest M. Vess v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary)

PER CURIAM.

Upon his plea of guilty, Ernest M. Vess was convicted on May 21, 1962 in the Circuit Court of Roanoke County, Virginia, of the first-degree murder of his wife, December 1,1961, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Exhausting his remedies in the State courts without success, he petitioned the District Court for release through habeas corpus.