COLE v. TUTTLE

No. DC 73-73-S.

366 F.Supp. 1252 (1973)

Roosevelt COLE, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Forrest TUTTLE, Sheriff of Panola County, Mississippi, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Mississippi, Delta Division.

November 27, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis Myers, Jr., North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, Oxford, Miss., Johnnie E. Walls, Jr., Charles Victor McTeer, Mound Bayou, Miss., Willie Bailey, North Miss. Rural Legal Services, Greenwood, Miss., John L. Walker, Jr., Johnson & Walker, David Lipman, Miss. Prisoners' Defense Commitee, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Will A. Hickman, Sumners & Hickman, Oxford, Miss., Charles C. Finch, Batesville, Miss., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

ORMA R. SMITH, District Judge.

This action is before the court on motion to dismiss filed by Horace Mathews, Bill Knox, J. B. Anderson, Nick Aldridge and James Travis, members of the Board of Supervisors of Panola County, Mississippi. These defendants are sued both individually and in their official capacities as members of the Board. The only other defendant is Forrest Tuttle, Sheriff of Panola County, Mississippi, who is sued individually...

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