FARLEY v. SKEEN

No. 609-W.

113 F.Supp. 736 (1953)

FARLEY v. SKEEN.

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

July 23, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. J. Farley, per se.

Howard Caplan, U. S. Atty., Clarksburg, W. Va., and Milford L. Gibson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Kingwood, W. Va., for respondent.


WATKINS, District Judge.

This is the second petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in this court by petitioner, a state prisoner who is serving a life sentence in the West Virginia Penitentiary for murder. The first petition was dismissed by this court on October 15, 1952, for the reasons stated in an opinion filed by this court. Farley v. Skeen, Warden, D.C.N.D.W.Va., 107 F.Supp. 881. In that case the court appointed four...

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