Garcia v. Steele

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The question presented by this appeal, prosecuted in forma pauperis, from an order dismissing the appellant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, is whether, a federal prisoner confined in the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners at Springfield, Missouri, who asserts that he is sane and therefore not a suitable subject for hospitalization in that institution, can require the District Court to determine whether his confinement therein is legal and whether he is entitled to be transferred by the Attorney General to some penal or correctional institution.

The…