UNITED STATES v. SKEEN

Civ. A. 750-W.

145 F.Supp. 776 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. James T. LAWSON, alias Truhart Lawson, Petitioner, v. Orel J. SKEEN, Warden, I. M. Coiner, Acting Warden, West Virginia State Penitentiary, Respondent.

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

November 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Fox, Atty. Gen., Robert E. Magnuson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


BOREMAN, District Judge.

Petitioner was indicted, tried and convicted in the Intermediate Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, for attempted armed robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment. He is presently confined in the West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville. He now seeks a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum alleging, in substance, the following grounds:

(1) That in the course of petitioner's trial, the Court committed error in the admission...

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