State Ex Rel. Smith Acton v. Flowers

Calhoun, Judge:

This case involves a habeas corpus proceeding instituted in this Court by Carolyn J. Smith Acton, (also known as Carolyn J. Acton Leogrande and as Carolyn J. Smith), the petitioner, against Edwin F. Flowers, State Commissioner of Welfare of West Virginia and also against Nelson Jennings and Joyce Jennings, husband and wife, as respondents.

The petitioner seeks a writ of habeas corpus to award to her the custody and control of Audrey Angela Antoinette Acton, a female child bom to the petitioner out of wedlock on December 10, 1967, while the petitioner was a prisoner in the…