United States ex rel. Morris v. Skeen

WATKINS, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, William H. Morris, now serving a state sentence in the West Virginia Penitentiary has filed a petition requesting the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the legality of his detention. Petitioner was indicted for the crime of statutory rape at the September, 1951 Term of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a term of five to twenty years, and committed to the penitentiary on December 27, 1951. There is no allegation or showing that any appeal was taken from this conviction. Petitioner…