Brooks v. Boles

Capean, Judge:

This is an appeal by Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary, respondent below, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Marshall County, West Virginia, wherein said Boles was ordered to release Bernard Brooks, petitioner below, from his confinement in the West Virginia Penitentiary.

Bernard Brooks, hereinafter sometimes referred to as petitioner, was the subject of two petitions filed in the Juvenile Court of Ohio County requesting that he be adjudged a delinquent. These petitions, filed June 6, 1964, charged Brooks with automobile theft and breaking and entering…