Legal Opinion
Drone v. Hutto
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 28, 1977No. 77-1143PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Per curiam
Carl Lee Drone, a prisoner at the Cum-mins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction, brought a civil action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1970), against Lt. Jimmy Dougan, a corrections officer at the prison, and Terrell Don Hutto, Commissioner of the Department of Correction, seeking damages and injunctive relief because of injuries sustained at the hands of Lt. Dougan and other correctional officers at Cummins. The district court heard the prisoner’s case without a jury and entered a dismissal. It found that, although Dougan admitted striking Drone several times with a slapper and although…
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