HAYMOND, Judge.
In this habeas corpus proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court of Marshall County, the petitioner, William Shears, seeks a writ to compel the defendant, Donivan E. Adams, Warden of the West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville, West Virginia, to release him from the penitentiary where he is now confined under a sentence of life imprisonment imposed by the Circuit Court of Preston County by its judgment pronounced June 22, 1957, in his trial upon...
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