FARMER v. SKEEN

No. 6987.

222 F.2d 948 (1955)

A. B. FARMER, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Orel J. SKEEN, Warden of the West Virginia State Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney or brief for appellant.

T. D. Kauffelt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (John G. Fox, Atty. Gen., of West Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a prisoner serving a sentence under the judgment of a West Virginia state court. See Farmer v. Skeen, D.C., 125 F.Supp. 549; Ex parte Farmer, 123 W.Va. 304, 14 S.E.2d 910; United States ex rel. Farmer v. Skeen, D.C., 107 F.Supp. 877; Id., 4 Cir., 203 F.2d 950....

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