State Ex Rel. Calloway v. Boles

Haymond, Judge:

This is an original habeas corpus proceeding instituted in this Court on December 11, 1964, in which the petitioner, John B. Calloway, seeks a writ to require the defendant, Otto C. Boles, Warden of the West Virginia Pentitentiary, to release him from the penitentiary where he is presently confined under a sentence of life imprisonment imposed by the Circuit Court of Logan County, West Virginia, on February 21, 1955.

Upon the filing of the petition this Court issued a writ returnable February 16, 1965 and appointed counsel to represent the petitioner in this proceeding. Upon the…