Reid v. State

The opinion o£ the court was delivered by

Fontron, J.:

This is an appeal by the petitioner, Eulysess M. Reid, from- an adverse judgment entered in a proceeding commenced by him -under K. S. A. 60-1507.

The chain of events giving rise to this action stretches back to October 8, 1968, when a violent incident occurred at the Kansas State Penitentiary culminating in felonious assaults on an officer and an unidentified convict. The officer, Travis Adanas, was paralyzed as a result of the attack. As an aftermath of the incident Mr. Reid and other convicts involved in the assaults were placed in the…