Fountain v. State

On March 7, 1994, Tony Fountain, an inmate at the Staton Correctional Facility, filed in the Elmore County Circuit Court a petition for emergency medical treatment. Fountain sought an order from the trial court directing the Department of Corrections (Department) to transport him to a “back specialist” for treatment of an injury he claimed he had received while working on a “prison work detail.”

On April 4, 1994, the Department filed a motion to dismiss Fountain’s petition alleging that the petition “[did] not state any grounds for which relief [could] be granted.” On April 7, 1994, Fountain…