HORTON v. SKEEN

Civ. No. 385-F.

118 F.Supp. 271 (1953)

HORTON v. SKEEN, Warden.

United States District Court, N. D. West Virginia, Fairmont Division.

December 28, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Ralph Musgrove, Fairmont, W. Va., for petitioner.


WATKINS, District Judge.

The petitioner, Gilmore J. Horton, is presently incarcerated at West Virginia Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia, under a sentence of 5 to 18 years imposed upon him by the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, for the slaying of one Thomas Raines. By a petition for the writ of habeas corpus received by this court August 25, 1953, and a subsequent petition dated September 28, 1953, which will be treated as an amendment...

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