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STATE EX REL. STRICKLAND v. MELTON

No. 12773.

165 S.E.2d 90 (1968)

STATE ex rel. Sterling Doy STRICKLAND v. G. Kemp MELTON, Sheriff of Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided December 10, 1968.

Dissenting in Part and Concurring in Part December 13, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weaver & Daugherty, George A. Daugherty, Charleston, for relator.

C. Donald Robertson, Atty. Gen., Leo Catsonis, Morton I. Taber, Asst. Attys. Gen., Charleston, for respondent.

HAYMOND, Judge:

In this original habeas corpus proceeding instituted in this Court the petitioner, Sterling Doy Strickland, seeks a writ to require the defendant, G. Kemp Melton, Sheriff of Kanawha County, West Virginia, to release him from the jail of Kanawha County, West Virginia, where he is confined in the custody of the defendant awaiting execution of two concurrent sentences of confinement in the penitentiary of this...

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