State Ex Rel. Bradley v. Johnson

Haymond, President:

In this original habeas corpus proceeding, instituted in this Court in December 1968, the petitioner, Richard G. Bradley, seeks a writ to compel the defendant, G. Kemp Melton, Sheriff of Kanawha County, West Virginia, to release him from his present confinement in the jail of Kanawha County, West Virginia, under a sentence of imprisonment in the penitentiary of this State for a period of not less than one year or more than ten years, with credit for the time served by the petitioner from November 29, 1967 imposed by the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia,…