Chapman v. Graham

2 Utah 2d 156 (1954)

270 P.2d 821

CHAPMAN

v.

GRAHAM.

No. 8147.

Supreme Court of Utah.

May 18, 1954.

E.R. Callister, Atty. Gen., Walter L. Budge, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

Billy Hulsey, Salt Lake City, for respondent.

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from order discharging petitioner forthwith in habeas corpus proceedings. Reversed.

Petitioner alleged an illegal restraint in that prison officials refused him medical attention. He said it amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Eliminating nonessentials, the record may be abstracted thus: Chapman was a burglar the legality of whose commitment he did not…