This habeas corpus proceeding was instituted in the Circuit Court of Marshall County in October, 1949, by the petitioner, Harry Dye, a prisoner under a sentence of imprisonment for life in the West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville, in that county, to require the respondent, Orel J. Skeen, as its warden, to release him forthwith from confinement in that prison. The proceeding was heard upon the petition...
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