State Ex Rel. Render v. Wood

Calhoun, Judge:

In this prohibition proceeding instituted in this Court, Willie Render, Jr., who in this opinion may be referred to as the relator or as the prisoner, seeks to prohibit the respondent, Honorable George W. Wood, Judge of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, from resentencing the relator upon a plea of guilty entered by the relator to an indictment charging a felony.

The basic contention made in behalf of the relator is that the intermediate court now has no jurisdiction or authority to impose a sentence upon the plea of guilty previously entered by the relator in that court…