STATE EX REL. BRADLEY v. JOHNSON

No. 12790.

166 S.E.2d 137 (1969)

STATE ex rel. Richard G. BRADLEY v. E. M. "Pete" JOHNSON, Successor to G. Kemp Melton, Sheriff of Kanawha County, West Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided March 4, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allan H. Masinter, Charleston, for relator.

C. Donald Robertson, Atty. Gen., Leo Catsonis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for respondent.


HAYMOND, President:

In this original habeas corpus proceeding, instituted in this Court in December 1968, the petitioner, Richard G. Bradley, seeks a writ to compel the defendant, G. Kemp Melton, Sheriff of Kanawha County, West Virginia, to release him from his present confinement in the jail of Kanawha County, West Virginia, under a sentence of imprisonment in the penitentiary of this State for a period of not less than one year or more than ten years, with credit...

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