Legal Opinion

Ex parte Wilson

District Court, E.D. South Carolina

Decided June 15, 1965No. Civ. A. No. AC-1322PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

HEMPHILL, Chief Judge.

Petitioner is before this Court, in forma pauperis, praying for a writ of habeas corpus on the basis that the State of South Carolina, with whom he is. presently quartered with the onus of a twelve year sentence, has denied him his right to communicate with the Courts by reason of the application of unreasonable prison rules associated with the “writ room.”

Previously this Court passed on the “reasonableness” of the South Carolina penitentiary’s “writ room,”1 and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the holding that the establishment of the “writ room” was…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ex parte WilsonDistrict Court, E.D. South Carolina · 1964

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Clements v. CicconeDistrict Court, W.D. Missouri · 1967

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