State Ex Rel. Cox v. Boles

HAYMOND, PRESIDENT:

In this original habeas corpus proceeding instituted in this Court on May 8, 1961, the petitioner, Franklin Acy Cox, seeks a writ to compel the defendant, Otto C. Boles, Warden of West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville, West Virginia, to release the petitioner, who is now confined in the penitentiary, from a sentence of five years imposed by the Circuit Court of Wyoming County on February 18, 1959, in addition to a sentence for an indeterminate period of from one year to ten years at that time also imposed by that court, upon an indictment for a felony to which the…