State Ex Rel. Titus v. Hayes

Haymond, Judge:

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding instituted in this Court on September 2, 1965, in which the petitioner, Paul Titus, seeks a writ to require the defendant, Gerald L. Hayes, Sheriff of Lewis County, West Virginia, to release the petitioner from his confinement in the county jail of Lewis County, to which he was committed by order of Wm. I. Marsh, a Justice of the Peace of Lewis County, on August 30, 1965. On that day the petitioner was found guilty by the justice of the offense of having been intoxicated in a public place and the justice imposed a fine of $10.00 and…