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TAYLOR v. STARNES

No. 78-6446.

650 F.2d 38 (1981)

Wanda TAYLOR, Appellee, v. Daniel STARNES, Superintendent, West Virginia State Prison for Women, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 29, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frances W. McCoy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, W. Va. (Chauncey H. Browning, Atty. Gen., David P. Cleek, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, W. Va., on brief), for appellant.

Larry N. Sullivan, Parkersburg, W. Va., for appellee.

Before BUTZNER and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and PERRY, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

PERRY, District Judge.

The appellant seeks reversal of an Order of the District Judge which granted a writ of habeas corpus to the appellee, Wanda Taylor, on the ground that, during the trial which led to her conviction of the offense of malicious wounding, she was denied effective assistance of counsel. Appellee was convicted by a West Virginia jury of the offense of malicious wounding pursuant to a statute which delineates the offense as a felony

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