West Virginia State Department of Public Assistance v. Miller

Ducker, Judge:

The West Virginia Department of Public Assistance is the petitioner in these two companion cases, one against Burgess Miller and Jessie Ann Miller, seeking a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum directing the respondents to deliver to petitioner custody of an infant, Karen Dawn Underwood, and the other seeking a writ of prohibition against Robert M. Worrell, Judge of the Circuit Court of Wyoming County, and Burgess Miller and Jessie Ann Miller, prohibiting the respondent, Robert M. Worrell, Judge, from enforcing an order of said court entered on March 21, 1957, which awarded an…