Legal Opinion
Horton v. Skeen
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
Decided November 23, 1954No. Civ. No. 431-FPublished
1Opinion of the Court
WATKINS, Chief Judge.
This is the second petition filed in this court for a writ of habeas corpus by petitioner, a state prisoner serving a sentence of five to eighteen years in the West Virginia Penitentiary for murder, which sentence was imposed upon him by the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia. The first petition was dismissed by this court on December 28, 1953, because the petitioner failed to show that he had exhausted the available state remedies. Horton v. Skeen, D.C.N.D.W.Va., 118 F.Supp. 271. Petitioner was later denied a certificate of probable cause on February 1,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Darr v. BurfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Ex Parte HawkSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Dorsey v. GillCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Goodwin v. Smyth, Superintendent of Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1950
- Farley v. SkeenDistrict Court, N.D. West Virginia · 1953
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