Katie Ruth Anderson v. C. E. Breazeale

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents another installment in the civil rights litigation concerning the October, 1964 arrest and resulting summary detention at Parchman Prison, Mississippi, of a group of freedom marchers. In Anderson v. Nosser, 5th Cir. 1972, 456 F.2d 835 (en banc), modifying 438 F.2d 183, we directed entry of a verdict on issues of liability against appellant Breazeale, the superintendent of Parchman at the time in question. Detailing certain conditions under which the plaintiff-appellees were peremptorily imprisoned for parading without a license, which “punishment…