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UNITED STATES v. SKEEN

No. 432-F.

126 F.Supp. 14 (1954)

UNITED STATES ex rel. William H. MORRIS, Petitioner, v. Orel J. SKEEN, Warden of West Virginia State Penitentiary.

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

November 23, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell L. Furbee, Fairmont, W. Va., for petitioner.

John G. Fox, Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, and James C. Blanton, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, for respondent.

WATKINS, Chief Judge.

Petitioner, William H. Morris, now serving a state sentence in the West Virginia Penitentiary has filed a petition requesting the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus to inquire into the legality of his detention. Petitioner was indicted for the crime of statutory rape at the September, 1951 Term of the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a term of five to twenty years, and committed to the...

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