Oscar A. Harrison v. Orel J. Skeen, Warden, West Virginia State Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, by a prisoner serving a life sentence for homicide under the judgment of a state court of West Virginia. A prior application for habeas corpus was denied' by the court below as was application to appeal in forma pauperis. Harrison v. Skeen, D.C., 114 F.Supp. 695, 696. Following that denial, application was made to the state courts of West Virginia; but from their denial no review by certiorari was sought from the Supreme Court of the United States. The application from which this appeal is taken was later filed…