Trodglen v. Judge, Daviess Circuit Court

CULLEN, Commissioner.

David L. Trodglen, a prisoner in the state penitentiary under sentence from the Daviess Circuit Court, has filed in this Court a petition, naming as respondent “Judge, Daviess Circuit Court,” seeking an order of mandamus to compel the respondent to furnish the petitioner, as a pauper, a record of the trial at which he was convicted, in order that he may prosecute an appeal he has taken from the judgment of conviction. The petition alleges that the respondent denied his application, accompanied by a pauper’s affidavit, to be furnished the record.

An original proceeding in…