State Ex Rel. Hinkle v. Skeen

Given, Judge:

In a petition apparently prepared without aid of counsel, filed in this Court on January 7, 1953, Clyde Dixon Hinkle, hereinafter referred to as petitioner, a prisoner confined in the West Virginia State Penitentiary, prayed a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, directed to the defendant, Oral J. Skeen, Warden. This Court, believing that the petition possibly raised questions of importance as to petitioner’s rights, awarded the writ and made the same returnable February 10, 1953. Filed with the petition was an affidavit of petition showing that he had no means of employing…