HOLT v. SARVER

Nos. PB-69-C-24, 69-C-25 and 69-C-29.

300 F.Supp. 825 (1969)

Lawrence HOLT et al., Petitioners, v. Robert SARVER, Commissioner of Corrections, Respondent. Travis Eugene FIELDS et al., Petitioners, v. Robert SARVER, Commissioner of Corrections, Respondent. George W. OVERTON et al., Petitioners, v. Robert SARVER, Commissioner of Corrections, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

June 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steele Hays and Jerry D. Jackson, Little Rock, Ark., for petitioners.

Don Langston, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Mike Wilson, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark., for respondent.


Memorandum Opinion

HENLEY, Chief Judge.

The several petitioners in subject cases are inmates of the Cummins Farm Unit of the Arkansas State Penitentiary located in Lincoln County, Arkansas, some miles south of the City of Pine Bluff and near the towns of Grady, Gould, and Dumas. Petitioners complain that those in charge of the Farm are depriving them of rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Federal jurisdiction...

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