Cohn v. Ketchum

Lovins, Judge:

By order entered on the 24th of June, 1941, the Circuit Court of Marshall County, acting upon the petition of J. B. Cohn for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, directed that petitioner be discharged from the custody of M. E. Ketchum, Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary. This Court thereafter awarded a writ of error and supersedeas to the judgment of the circuit court on the petition of Ketchum.

Cohn was indicted by a grand jury in and for Wood County at the October, 1939, term, charged with a violation of Code, 61-3-39, by giving a worthless check in the amount of…