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STATE EX REL. KESSICK v. BORDENKIRCHER

No. 15506.

294 S.E.2d 134 (1982)

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. William Thomas KESSICK v. Donald BORDENKIRCHER, Supt., WVP.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

July 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O'Farrell, Pamela Dawn Tarr, Charleston, for petitioner.

Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Laurie J. Garrigan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for respondent.

PER CURIAM:

Petitioner William Thomas Kessick, by writ of habeas corpus, challenges an order of the Circuit Court of Cabell County, West Virginia, entered 3 February 1981, which accepted his plea of guilty to the charge of unlawfully wounding his four-month-old daughter. We find that the lower court did not conduct a proper hearing on the issue of the petitioner's competency to enter a guilty plea in the face of sufficient facts to alert the court that petitioner...

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