RANEY v. STATE, DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 10497.

322 So.2d 890 (1975)

Joseph RANEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The STATE of Louisiana, Through the DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

November 24, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Byron Magvee, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert E. Funderburk, Jr., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee.

Before SARTAIN, BAILES and PICKETT, JJ.


PICKETT, Judge:

This is a suit in which the Plaintiff, Joseph Raney, a former inmate of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, at Angola, seeks to recover for personal injuries inflicted upon him on November 15, 1974, by two other inmates, at a time when they were confined together in a cell in Cell Block D, Isolation.

Plaintiff contends that two other inmates, namely, Billy Self and Frederick Smith, sexually assaulted him; that Smith beat him about the head and...

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