Gibbs v. Gladden

Petitioner is a prisoner in the Oregon State Penitentiary. He appeals from an order of the circuit court dismissing proceedings in which the petitioner sought judicial relief against the warden of the penitentiary by a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petition was drawn without the aid of counsel, but the trial court gave it careful consideration and permitted supplemental petitions to be filed. What the petitioner apparently sought, however, was not to test the legality of his imprisonment but rather to question the internal operations of the institution. The petitioner assigns two…