Long v. Benson

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

Appeal from an order of the District Court denying appellant’s application for a writ of habeas corpus and for the appointment of a special master to hear evidence and report on the cause of appellant’s detention in the Michigan State Prison. The petition was prepared by appellant himself. It is difficult to determine the gravamen of appellant’s complaint. The petition contains the general averment that appellant is unlawfully restrained of his liberty as a prisoner in the Michigan Branch Prison at Marquette, by appellee Benson, the Warden, under color of the authority of…