STATE v. BOLES

No. 12266.

132 S.E.2d 634 (1963)

STATE ex rel. Lee Taylor ASHWORTH v. Otto C. BOLES, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided October 8, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew A. Raptis, Jr., Charleston, for relator.

C. Donald Robertson, Atty. Gen., George H. Mitchell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for respondent.


CAPLAN, Judge.

The relator, Lee Taylor Ashworth, a prisoner in the state penitentiary in Moundsville, invoked the original jurisdiction of this Court by filing with it on July 3, 1963, his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On July 30, 1963, a writ was issued by this Court commanding Otto C. Boles, respondent herein, to produce the body of the relator before this Court on September 4, 1963, and to show cause why he detains...

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