Muscatatuck State School v. Derringer

Appellee, as an employee of the Muscatatuck State School, was charged with the abuse of an inmate of the school and discharged. He appealed to the Indiana State Personnel Board. Pending this appeal he was charged with assault and battery, based on the alleged abuse of the inmate and, after trial, was found not guilty. Thereafter the Indiana State Personnel Board rendered a decision sustaining the dismissal of the appellee. The appellee thereupon asked for a judicial review in the Jennings Circuit Court. This appeal is taken from that court’s reversal of the action of the Personnel Board.

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