STATE v. CUBBAGE


210 A.2d 555 (1965)

The STATE of Delaware, on the relation of Walter H. TATE, John Weddington, David Sanders, Eron Davis and Pierce Johnson, Plaintiffs-Relators, v. I. Hammond CUBBAGE, Chairman, Sidney Balick, Karl K. Brown, George Ehinger, Thomas W. McKenna, Frank S. Parker, and C. Arthur Taylor, being and constituting the Delaware State Board of Corrections, Harry W. Towers, Acting Director of Corrections and Raymond Anderson, Warden, New Castle Correctional Institution, and State of Delaware, Defendants-Respondents.

Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle.

May 7, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard M. Handelman, Wilmington, for relators.

B. Wilson Redfearn, Deputy Atty. Gen., Wilmington, for respondents.


LYNCH, Judge.

Relators, inmates of the New Castle Correctional Institution3 belonging to a group which is commonly known as the "Black Muslims", filed an application for a Writ of Mandamus on June 19, 1964, naming as respondents those persons set forth above in the caption.

Basically, relators (1) claim that the Black Muslims are a religion, and that they have been denied their right to practice their religion at the N.C.C.I; and...

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