United States ex rel. Bowe v. Skeen

WATKINS, District Judge.

This is the second petition filed in this court by Jesse Bowe for a writ of habeas corpus. The first petition was denied by ■this court on September 12, 1944.

Jesse Bowe is a state prisoner who is now confined in the West Virginia penitentiary by -.-eason of a sentence of life imprisonment imposed upon him by the Kanawha County Intermediate Court on May 14, 1934, under the West Virginia Habitual Criminal statute. No appeal .was taken from that conviction, but in December, 1943, petitioner filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Circuit Court of Marshall…