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STATE EX REL. LAMBERT v. STEPHENS

No. 23931.

490 S.E.2d 891 (1997)

200 W.Va. 803

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. Gordon LAMBERT, President, County Commission of McDowell County, and Donald L. Hicks, Sheriff of McDowell County, Relators, v. Honorable Booker T. STEPHENS, Judge of the Circuit Court of McDowell County, and William Bowman, Administrator, McDowell County Jail, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney H. Bell, Prosecuting Attorney, of McDowell County Welch, for Relators.

John M. Hedges, Byrne & Hedges, Morgantown, for Booker T. Stephens, Judge.

WORKMAN, Chief Justice:

This original habeas corpus proceeding was brought to this Court on January 3, 1997, seeking the immediate custodial release of Gordon Lambert, President of the County Commission of McDowell County, and Donald L. Hicks, Sheriff of McDowell County (hereinafter collectively referred to as Relators). On that same day, this Court issued a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum, commanding William Bowman...

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