STATE EX REL. LaMERE v. Young

Appeal from an order granting a motion to dismiss contempt proceedings. Petitioners are inmates of the State Prison at Stillwater. Respondents are Jack Young, warden of the State Prison, and John E. Jansen, Jr., county attorney of Washington County, in which the prison is situated.

These proceedings, instituted in 1970, are based on an alleged violation by Warden Young of an order of the court issued March 7, 1967, in.a different action, by which the then warden, Ralph H. Tahash, was ordered not to use chemical mace in inflicting corporal punishment upon the inmate involved in that proceeding.…