State Ex Rel. Clark v. Adams

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 confined and is serving an indeterminate sentence of from one year to fifteen years, pronounced by the Circuit Court of Wood County, by its final judgment entered April 24, 1959.

Upon the issuance of the writ this Court appointed counsel to represent the petitioner in this proceeding and on September 8, 1959,…