State Ex Rel. Clark v. Adams

111 S.E.2d 336 (1959)

STATE ex rel. Donald Edward CLARK

v.

D. E. ADAMS, Warden.

No. 11075.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Submitted September 29, 1959.

Decided November 17, 1959.

Charles R. McElwee, Charleston, for relator.

W. W. Barron, Atty. Gen., Clement R. Bassett, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

HAYMOND, Judge.

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding instituted in this Court, in which the petitioner, Donald Edward Clark, seeks a writ to require the defendant, D. E. Adams, Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary, to release the petitioner from the penitentiary where he is now…