IN RE RIDDLE

Docket No. Crim. 7045.

57 Cal.2d 848 (1962)

372 P.2d 304

22 Cal. Rptr. 472

In re GEORGE EDWARD RIDDLE on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

June 12, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.M. Mannon, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Petitioner.

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General, John S. McInerny and Albert W. Harris, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.


PETERS, J.

George Edward Riddle, an inmate of San Quentin Prison, has filed, in propria persona, a petition for habeas corpus in which he seeks his release because of the alleged cruelty of the prison custodial officers. He alleges that his head was split open as the result of an unprovoked clubbing by the prison guards. He also alleges that he has been kept isolated from other prisoners so that they could not learn of the...

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