Smith v. Turner

HENRIOD, Justice.

Appeal from an order granting a petition for writ of habeas corpus where cruel and unusual punishment was urged, unless the petitioner be taken to a county hospital, given medical tests, recommendations for treatment for petitioner’s psoriasis, and to provide a diet therefor and medication to be prescribed by physicians who might examine him. Reversed with instructions to vacate said order.

Two witnesses appeared, the petitioner and the prison physician. The latter was qualified as a general practitioner (by stipulation). Petitioner displayed sores and bumps on his arms and…