Matthews v. Farabee

MOREMEN, Judge.

This is an original action in which Nev-ille Matthews seeks a writ of mandamus to require “Dr. Dale Farabee to have the Central State Hospital, Lakeland, Kentucky, to issue Medical Records to the Clerk of Lyon Circuit Court, Eddyville, Kentucky, dating from 1952 to 1965.”

Matthews alleges that he now has pending in the Lyon Circuit Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and that his medical records are necessary to prove his contention that at the time of the trial he was insane. The Lyon Circuit Court has sufficient power to coerce the production of such records if they…