State Ex Rel. Vandal v. Adams

115 S.E.2d 489 (1960)

STATE ex rel. Robert VANDAL

v.

D. E. ADAMS, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary.

No. 12050.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Submitted July 12, 1960.

Decided July 23, 1960.

Frank L. Taylor, Jr., Charleston, for relator.

W. W. Barron, Atty. Gen., George H. Mitchell, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

BROWNING, President.

Petitioner, a prisoner in the West Virginia State Penitentiary, invoked the original jurisdiction of this Court by filing herein his petition asking for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum. The petitioner alleged that his "imprisonment, detention,…