CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Fifty-eight years ago this week, one of the most extraordinary political corruption cases in West Virginia history began in a federal courtroom in Charleston, where a former governor and five other men stood accused in a conspiracy involving state contracts, secret payments and money moving through corporations hundreds of miles away. Within three years, Barron would plead guilty to federal charges stemming from the revelation that $25,000 had been paid to the foreman of the very jury that acquitted him, an extraordinary conclusion to a scandal that reached from the highest levels of West Virginia government into the jury room itself.