Case Name: State ex rel. Rankin v. Worden, Judge
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1942-04-14
Citations: 219 Ind. 698
Docket Number: No. 27,665
Parties: State ex rel. Rankin v. Worden, Judge.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 219
Pages: 698–699

Head Matter:
State ex rel. Rankin v. Worden, Judge.
[No. 27,665.
Filed April 14, 1942.]
Fred Rankin, of Michigan City, pro se.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This is an original action in which it appears that the relator, an inmate of the Indiana State Prison, filed. his petition for a writ of habeas coo-pus; that a writ issued, which was afterward dis solved, and his petition dismissed. Relator seeks an order mandating the respondent to allow the relator to appeal from the judgment in the habeas corpus proceeding "as a poor person."
The relator may appeal, of course, without permission of the respondent court. It is assumed that he seeks a transcript of the record at the expense of the county. The appeal which he seeks to perfect is not from a judgment against him in the criminal prosecution. In the habeas corpus proceeding he is the moving party. For the reasons indicated in State ex rel. Cutsinger v. Spencer, Judge (1941), ante, p. 148, 37 N. E. (2d) 88, 41 N. E. (2d) 601, he is not entitled to the relief prayed.
The petition is denied.
Note.—Reported in 40 N. E. (2d) 970.