Chapman v. Graham

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 non-essentials, the record may be abstracted thus: Chapman was a burglar the legality of whose commitment he did not assail. In applying for and obtaining a parole, he assigned as one reason a desire and intention to have an operation on what accurately was described as his “weak and almost useless right arm and hand of 16 years…