Martin v. Skeen

WATKINS, District Judge.

Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment as an habitual criminal in November, 1952 by the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, following his third conviction of a crime designated a felony by the State of West Virginia. The prisoner, in his petition for the writ of habeas corpus now before this court, acknowledges the existence of two previous confinements at West Virginia Penitentiary, Mounds-ville, West Virginia, prior to his third conviction and subsequent life imprisonment but contends that his present de*270tention is unlawful in that he was…