Hartley v. State

Rex Hartley, an inmate at the Easterling Correctional Facility ("the facility"), appeals from the dismissal of the underlying action in the Barbour Circuit Court in which he filed, pro se, a "Civil Complaint for Declaratory Judgment" ("the complaint") against the facility's warden. Hartley contends that the trial court erred in construing his complaint as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and he asks for various forms of relief to correct the alleged error.

Hartley contended in his complaint that the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the United…