Legal Opinion
Boggess v. Boles
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
Decided March 21, 1966No. 435-EPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAXWELL, Chief Judge.
Mansford Boggess, an inmate of the West Virginia State Penitentiary, is now in the custody of the Respondent, serving a life sentence for unarmed robbery, imposed on November 1, 1954, by the Inter*690mediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia. This sentence was imposed after Boggess, who originally had been indicted by a Kanawha County Grand Jury for armed robbery, was given leave by the court, before trial started, to enter a guilty plea as to unarmed robbery.
In 1964 Boggess unsuccessfully petitioned the West Virginia State Supreme Court of Appeals for habeas corpus…
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