HOSKINS v. BENNETT

No. 51492.

131 N.W.2d 510 (1964)

Jack H. HOSKINS, Appellant, v. John E. BENNETT, Warden Iowa State Penitentiary, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 16, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack H. Hoskins, pro se.

Evan Hultman, Atty. Gen. of Iowa, for appellee.


THOMPSON, Justice.

Post conviction remedies sought by those incarcerated in state prisons have become in recent years increasingly a part of litigations with which the courts must deal. The Supreme Court of the United States has by its decisions greatly broadened the scope of the due process and equal rights clauses of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and has changed or cast doubt upon what had been previously considered settled principles...

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