Echard v. Holland

McGRAW, Justice:

On February 15,1985, the appellant, Carl O’Dell- Echard, a prisoner at the West Virginia Penitentiary, filed a pro se petition in the Circuit Court of Marshall County seeking the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus against the appellees, Manfred G. Holland, the warden at the penitentiary, and John Massie, the records clerk at the penitentiary. In his petition, the appellant alleged that he was being illegally detained as a result of an incorrect credit of “good time” by the appellees in calculating the discharge date of his sentences. The appellant argued that a proper…