Legal Opinion
Craigo v. Hey
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided June 6, 1986No. 17085, 17086PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEELY, Justice:
Robert Gary Craigo and James M. Oxier are indigent prisoners. Each has brought a civil suit in his own name, and each has had little success in prosecuting his action. Although we have held that a convict may sue in his own name, Craigo v. Marshall, 175 W.Va. 72, 331 S.E.2d 510 (1985), we have not detailed what aid the State of West Virginia must provide to indigent convicts to bring civil suits. Today we hold that indigent convicts enjoy the same right to legal aid as indigent freemen, but no more.
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Mr. Craigo alleged in his petition for a writ of mandamus in this court that…
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