Ford v. Coiner

Carrigan, Judge:

Petitioner by this writ of error seeks to reverse a judgment of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County denying appellant’s prayer for a writ of habeas corpus.

The appellant, John Wayne Ford, was jointly indicted with a companion for murder, said indictment stating the appellant “feloniously, wilfully, maliciously, deliberately and unlawfully did slay, kill and murder one Henry Russell.” The appellant pled “not guilty,” but upon his separate trial in May, 1968, the jury returned a verdict stating, “We the jury find John Wayne Ford Guilty in the within indictment as charged.”

Appellan…