State Ex Rel. Azeez v. Mangum

WORKMAN, Justice:

This case is before the Court upon the appeal of Jamal Adeen Azeez from an order of the Circuit Court of Raleigh County denying Appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus at the conclusion of the December 14, 1992, omnibus hearing. The Appellant’s petition for habeas corpus was based upon his July 31, 1987, jury conviction for second degree sexual assault, for which he was sentenced to not less than ten years nor more than twenty years in the state penitentiary,1.

It is helpful to first examine the facts underlying the Appellant’s 1987 conviction. The Appellant worked as…