Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes Docket Number No. 12060 Attorney(S) Frank L. Taylor, Jr., for W. W. Barron, Attorney General, George H. Mitchell, Assistant Attorney General, for Judges BROWNING, PRESIDENT: See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. STATE ex rel. MELVIN GERST v. D. E. ADAMS, Warden, WEST VIRGINIA PENITENTIARY BROWNING, PRESIDENT: The petitioner in the instant proceeding is one of those persons jointly indicted with Robert 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.