CANNON v. SKEEN

Civ. No. 429-F.

126 F.Supp. 114 (1954)

Raymond CANNON, Petitioner, v. Orel J. SKEEN, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. W. Va., Fairmont Division.

November 22, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

John G. Fox, Atty. Gen. of West Virginia, and Cletus B. Hanley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


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 Intermediated Court at the October Term 1942 under the West Virginia Habitual Criminal Act, Code, 61-11...

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