Case Name: State ex rel. Melvin Gerst v. D. E. Adams, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Jurisdiction: West Virginia
Decision Date: 1960-07-23
Citations: 145 W. Va. 580
Docket Number: No. 12060
Parties: State ex rel. Melvin Gerst v. D. E. Adams, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary
Judges: 
Reporter: West Virginia Supreme Court
Volume: 145
Pages: 580–581

Head Matter:
State ex rel. Melvin Gerst v. D. E. Adams, Warden, West Virginia Penitentiary
(No. 12060)
Submitted July 19, 1960.
Decided July 23, 1960.
Frank L. Taylor, Jr., for relator.
W. W. Barron, Attorney General, George H. Mitchell, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Opinion:
Browning, Preesident:
The petitioner in the instant proceeding is one of those persons jointly indicted with Bobert Vandal, see State ex rel. Vandal v. Adams, Warden, etc., 145 W. Va. 566, 115 S. E. 2d. 489, decided at this term of Court, and this proceeding' is controlled by the decision in that case.
Prisoner discharged.