Larkin v. People

Jerry E. Larkin, the defendant below in both actions, will hereinafter be referred to as Larkin. The Court has consolidated these appeals since both arise out of the same trial below.

Larkin, who was an inmate of the Colorado State Penitentiary, and a member of a work force which worked outside the prison walls, came under suspicion of smuggling narcotics into the prison. On April 19, 1967, upon re-entering the prison he was searched but nothing was found. He voluntarily submitted to an X-ray which showed an object in his rectum. He refused to undergo an enema and was placed under constant…