STATE EX REL. McCLURE v. TRENT

No. 24202.

504 S.E.2d 165 (1998)

202 W.Va. 338

STATE ex rel. James McCLURE, Appellant, v. George TRENT, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided June 22, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Castelle, Chief Public Defender, Charleston, for the Appellant.

William C. Forbes, Prosecuting Attorney, Mary Beth Kershner, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Charleston, for the Appellee.


PER CURIAM:1

This action is before this Court upon an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County entered on November 7, 1996. The circuit court denied a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed by the appellant, James McClure, seeking to have his convictions of first degree murder and malicious wounding reversed on the basis of alleged fraudulent testimony provided at his trial by former State Trooper Fred Zain. On...

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