Haworth v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

KIDWELL, J.

Plaintiff-appellant seeks damages for injuries incurred while working as a prisoner of the State serving a sentence at the Olinda Honor Camp, a minimum security penal institution on the island of Maui. Together with other prison inmates, appellant had been assigned to the work of removing loose boulders and rocks from embankments adjacent to and rising above a public road. Appellant suffered his injuries by a fall from such an embankment while engaged in such work, and appeals from a judgment for the State in a bench trial. We reverse.

Although the trial court…