United States Ex Rel. Lawson v. Skeen

BOREMAN, District Judge.

Petitioner was indicted, tried and convicted in the Intermediate Court of Kana-wha County, West Virginia, for attempted armed robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is presently confined in the West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville. He now seeks a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum alleging, in substance, the following grounds:(1) That in the course of petitioner’s trial, the Court committed error in the admission and exclusion of certain evidence, and in refusing to give to the jury certain instructions offered by the defendant petitioner;(2) That…