Cannon v. Skeen

WATKINS, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, Raymond Cannon, now serving a state- sentence in the West Virginia Penitentiary, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and the warden of the, penitentiary has filed an answer to such petition. ■ From the petition it appears that the petitioner is serving a sentence of life imprisonment imposed upon him by the Ohio County Intermediate Court at the October Term 1942 under the West Virginia Habitual Criminal Act, Code, 61-11-18. Petitioner was convicted of the crime of breaking and entering, but the indictment also set forth that he had been…