Pittman v. Elsbury

This court has received 10 separate and distinct petitions from this petitioner since July 3, 1964. The last two received are a “Writ of Mandamus, Prohibition,” and a “Petition, pro se.”

*647None of the petitions received state any concrete proposition on which a belated appeal under Rule 2-40A or a writ of mandate under Rule 2-35 could be issued. The petitioner merely alleges that he is being wrongfully detained in the Indiana Reformatory but states no grounds whatsoever upon which his conclusion can be based.

It is clear under Indiana law that a writ of mandate may only be issued by the Supreme…