Hall v. Heer

Plaintiff in error filed his petition for the writ of habeas corpus complaining of being confined in the maximum security portion of the prison without reason and was thus being deprived of “the privileges and his restricted freedom enjoyed by the other inmates of the prison,” that “such punishment constitutes prejudicial treatment against him; and further, that it constitutes cruel and inhuman punishment, a violation of the petitioner’s constitutional right of the Eighth Amendment which provides that no cruel or unusual punishment be inflicted.”

In this petition a hearing was requested so…