HUGHES v. TURNER

No. 9752.

14 Utah 2d 128 (1963)

378 P.2d 888

H. CLAY HUGHES, JR., PLAINTIFF AND RESPONDENT, v. JOHN W. TURNER, WARDEN, UTAH STATE PRISON, AND ERNEST D. WRIGHT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, STATE BOARD OF CORRECTIONS, DEFENDANTS AND APPELLANTS.

Supreme Court of Utah.

February 21, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Pratt Kesler, Atty. Gen., Gordon A. Madsen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Salt Lake City, for appellants.

H. Clay Hughes, Jr., pro se.


WADE, Justice.

This appeal ls from an order granting the petition of H. Clay Hughes, Jr., for a writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner H. Clay Hughes, Jr. is a prisoner in the Utah State Prison whose place of abode for the greater portion of his time since his commitment in November, 1960, has been in the maximum security wing of that institution, a place where most of the privileges granted more amenable prisoners are not available to those incarcerated in that...

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