COTTON v. HUTTO

No. 76-1270.

540 F.2d 412 (1976)

Seymour F. X. [COTTON, Jr.], et al., Appellants, v. Terrell Don HUTTO, Commissioner, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seymour F. X. Cotton, Jr., pro se.

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen. and Jack Lassiter, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before BRIGHT, ROSS, and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.


BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

We have consolidated under one docket number appeals from two civil rights complaints by Seymour F. X. Cotton, Jr., in which other prisoners have joined in some of the allegations. We treat the two cases in separate parts of this opinion.

I. Seymour F. X. [Cotton, Jr.], et al. v. Terrell Don Hutto, etc. D.C. No. PB-76-C-85.

This § 1983 action was brought by six inmates of the East Building (the maximum security...

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