Case Name: HAROLD GOFF, Petitioner, v. The STATE OF MONTANA, and Acting Warden ED ELLSWORTH, JR., Respondents
Court: Montana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Montana
Decision Date: 1962-10-04
Citations: 141 Mont. 605
Docket Number: No. 10512
Parties: HAROLD GOFF, Petitioner, v. The STATE OF MONTANA, and Acting Warden ED ELLSWORTH, JR., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Montana Reports
Volume: 141
Pages: 605–606

Head Matter:
No. 10512.
HAROLD GOFF, Petitioner, v. The STATE OF MONTANA, and Acting Warden ED ELLSWORTH, JR., Respondents.
Submitted September 28, 1962.
Decided October 4, 1962.
374 P.2d 862.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The petitioner has previously been before this Court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus which was denied. See Goff v. State of Montana, 139 Mont. 641, 367 P.2d 557. Having failed to secure his release from prison through his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, petitioner now seeks to invoke the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, sections 93-8901 through 93-8916, E.C.M.1947, to get this court to answer some fifty-five interrogatories, and to accomplish through this method what he sought to accomplish by his previous habeas corpus petition.
Petitioner fails to understand the purpose of the Declaratory Judgment statutes which are civil and not criminal remedies.
For this reason the petition must be and is denied and the proceeding ordered dismissed.