WATKINS, Chief 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. He was sentenced to death by the Circuit Court of Boone County, West Virginia, in March, 1937, but this sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. He asked this court to proceed in forma pauperis and to appoint counsel for him, which requests have been granted...
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