Glispey v. Sheriff, Carson City

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

This is an appeal from an order which denied a pre-trial petition for habeas corpus.

An undisclosed number of inmates at the state prison were obtaining controlled substances from an unknown source. The warden, and his staff, suspected that certain persons who visited some of the prisoners might be smuggling the substances into the prison.

A plan was devised whereby the guards at the entry gate were to telephone the secretary of the deputy warden when certain visitors signed in at the gate. The secretary was delegated to keep those certain visitors under…