Edwards v. Malmberg

Hill, Justice.

Appellant Edwards filed a pro se complaint against H. Malmberg, Hospital Administrator, Georgia State Prison, in the Tattnall Superior Court seeking to strike from petitioner’s record certain alleged defamatory statements allegedly made by the defendant which caused petitioner to lose his job as a nurse in the prison hospital. He also sought temporary injunctive relief pending final trial. The trial court construed the pleading as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and refused to sanction it for the reason that it did not state grounds for habeas relief.

Edwards enumerates as…