Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Barnard
District Court, E.D. Illinois
Decided October 18, 1943PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LINDLEY, District Judge.
In a request for a writ of habeas corpus, Lester Barnard, petitioner, avers that he is being detained illegally by the warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Pontiac Branch, and that he is being denied proper medical treatment by prison physicians.
Petitioner was convicted in the State Court in 1930, and sentenced to serve a term of from one year to life in the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac. In 1933, by an act of the legislature, SmithHurd Stats.Ill. c. 108, § 105 et seq., the Illinois State Reformatory was consolidated with the penitentiary at Joliet, the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- People Ex Rel. Cassidy v. McKinleyIllinois Supreme Court · 1939
- Wilson v. LanaganCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1938
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