Winter Ex Rel. Winter v. MacQueen

Caplan, Chief Justice:

During the January Term, 1977, of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County the grand jury serving said court returned four indictments charging respondent Linda C. *31Payne with felony offenses involving forgery. On June 21, 1977 this respondent appeared before Judge Andrew MacQueen, a respondent herein, and entered a plea of guilty to one of said indictments. In the course of the plea proceedings the then defendant Payne disclosed that she had been previously convicted of a felony within five years from the date of the felony to which she was then pleading. She was fully…