United States ex rel. Estep v. Skeen

WATKINS, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, Charles Edward Estep, is a state prisoner in the West Virginia *154Penitentiary. He has filed a petition requesting the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the legality of his detention. He is serving a life sentence under the West Virginia Habitual Criminal Act imposed upon him by the Circuit Court of Nicholas County, West Virginia, on October 27, 1940. Petitioner was convicted on a plea of guilty of the crime of forgery, but the indictment also set forth that he had been previously convicted of a felony on the 19th day of June, 1920, in the…