Hamrick v. Hazelet

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of the district court summarily dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by the appellant Arthur L. Hamrick, an inmate at the Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas. The respondent named in the petition is the warden of the penitentiary. The proceedings were instituted on May 22, 1970, by the pro se filing of a handwritten instrument designated as a “Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus Ad Testificandum Pursuant to K. S. A. 60-1501.”

In his petition the appellant complains that he has been…