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STATE v. ADAMS

No. 12050.

115 S.E.2d 489 (1960)

STATE ex rel. Robert VANDAL v. D. E. ADAMS, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 23, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank L. Taylor, Jr., Charleston, for relator.

W. W. Barron, Atty. Gen., George H. Mitchell, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

BROWNING, President.

Petitioner, a prisoner in the West Virginia State Penitentiary, invoked the original jurisdiction of this Court by filing herein his petition asking for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum. The petitioner alleged that his "imprisonment, detention, confinement and restraint in the Penitentiary of the State of West Virginia is illegal, unreasonable, unconstitutional and void; * * *." On July 5, 1960, the writ was granted, returnable July 12...

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