State Ex Rel. Browning v. Tucker

*831Haymond, Judge:

This is a habeas corpus proceeding instituted in this Court, in which the petitioner, Denny J. Browning, seeks a writ to require the defendant, E. H. Tucker, Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary, forthwith to release him from his present confinement under a sentence of life imprisonment imposed upon the petitioner by the final judgment of the Circuit Court of Logan County, entered January 21, 1941, in the trial on an indictment for the felony of malicious wounding returned against him by a grand jury attending that court at its regular May Term, 1940.

The petitioner contends…