State Ex Rel. Bryan v. Boles

Browning, President:

Upon application of petitioner, Virgil Bryan, this Court granted a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum on November 23, 1964, returnable January 13, 1965. On the return day the case was continued to February 16, 1965, and was argued and submitted on that date.

The petition alleges petitioner’s conviction of the offense of forgery in the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County in 1961; the filing of an information setting forth two previous convictions of felonies in Kanawha County in the years 1939 and 1957; the finding by a jury that petitioner was the same person named in…