Shears v. Adams

Haymond, Judge:

In this babeas corpus proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court of Marshall County, the petitioner, William Shears, seeks a writ to compel the defendant, Donivan E. Adams, Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville, West Virginia, to release him from the pentitentiary where he is now confined nnder a sentence of life imprisonment imposed by the Circuit Court of Preston County by its judgment pronounced June 22, 1957, in his trial upon an indictment for the crime of forgery. To the petition for the writ, with which a certified copy of the judgment imposing the…