Riffle v. King

memorandum;

MAXWELL, Chief Judge.

Petitioners, Harold Lloyd Riffle and Michael Douglas Shaffer, were tried before a jury in the Circuit Court of Wood County, West Virginia, found guilty of murder in the first degree, and, on January 6, 1964, sentenced to confinement for life in the penitentiary.1 Pursuant to this conviction Petitioners are now incarcerated in the West Virginia Medium Security Prison at Huttonsville, West Virginia.

After having exhausted their state remedies through timely applications for a writ of error and for a writ of habeas corpus, both of which were denied, Petitioners…