Osmulski v. Superior Court

Stanley Osmulski, petitioner, an inmate of the State Prison at Folsom, California, was on May 30,1958, confined to Folsom Honor Camp Number 7 in Placer County and was thereafter charged with escape therefrom.

He petitioned this court for a writ of prohibition, restraining the respondent court from further prosecution of that charge against him. He proceeds herein in forma pauperis and in propria persona. The burden of his complaint is that (1) on his arrest he was denied his statutory right to be taken before a magistrate, and, (2) he has been denied his constitutional right to speedy trial.…