STATE EX REL. EDGELL v. PAINTER

No. 25896.

522 S.E.2d 636 (1999)

206 W.Va. 168

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. Charles R. EDGELL, Petitioner Below, Appellant, v. Howard PAINTER, Warden, Mount Olive Correctional Complex, Respondent Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided October 13, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Pellegrin, Morgantown, West Virginia, Attorney for the Appellant.

Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., Attorney General, Allen H. Loughry, II, Assistant Attorney General, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorneys for the Appellee.


PER CURIAM:

This is an appeal by Charles Ray Edgell, appellant/petitioner (hereinafter referred to as "Edgell") from an order by the Circuit Court of Monongalia County denying him habeas corpus relief. Edgell had alleged several grounds of ineffective assistance of counsel during his trial for sexual offenses. In this appeal, he contends the circuit court committed error by failing to conclude that trial counsel was ineffective by: (1) failing to call a specific witness...

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