In Re Taylor

Miscellaneous No. 197

By a petition filed directly in this court on February 28, 1951 petitioner, Earl W. Taylor, demands an order allowing him to file and prosecute a cause of action in this court without prepayment of costs. He identifies his “cause” as an application for a Writ of Mandamus directed to the Board of Examiners at the McNeil Island Penitentiary requiring them to examine petitioner upon the issue of his sanity or health. He alleges that he has been “transferred” to a government institution at Springfield, Missouri where he is presently confined with insane federal convicts. He claims a legal right to “an examination” by the Board of Examiners at the McNeil Island Penitentiary; that the Board at the prison “conspired with others” to transfer petitioner to the Missouri institution; that the transfer was “without examination if Form 66 instead of Form 5 be employed to effect the transfer.” It is further averred that on February 7, 1951, the United States District Court sitting at Tacoma, Washington denied relief to petitioner on his petition demanding the relief here sought.

The significance and relevance of the “forms” used by medical officers of the McNeil Island…