Legal Opinion
Fox v. State
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided July 16, 1986No. 16872PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGRAW, Justice:
This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus. The petitioner,. Timothy Eugene Fox, seeks to have set aside a final order of the Circuit Court of Marshall County, entered October 19, 1984, which revoked his probation and sentenced him to imprisonment in the state penitentiary. We conclude that the circuit court abused its discretion in revoking the petitioner’s probation, and we award the writ.
On July 5,1983, the petitioner pled guilty in the Circuit Court of Marshall County to an information charging him with two counts of breaking and entering and one count of forgery.…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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