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CARTER v. NOBLE

No. 75-2699 Summary Calendar.

526 F.2d 677 (1976)

Warren CARTER, Individually and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, Cross Appellants, v. W. B. NOBLE, Individually and as Sheriff of Madison County, Mississippi, et al., Defendants, Jack Pentecost, Individually and as Jailer of the Madison County Jail, Defendant-Appellant, Cross Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 28, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. McIntyre, Jackson, Miss., for defendant-appellant, cross appellee.

Nausead Stewart, Fred L. Banks, Jr., Constance I. Slaughter, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross appellants.

Joe R. Fancher, Jr., Canton, Miss., for other interested parties.

Before WISDOM, BELL and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Warren Carter was placed in the Madison County, Mississippi jail overnight because he did not have $34 to pay two traffic violation fines he had incurred that day. His mother paid the fines early the next morning and went to the county jail to obtain the release of her son. She had to wait in an outside room until the jailer, Deputy Sheriff Jack Pentecost, arrived. He had been directed by the Sheriff to release the prisoner. It is uncontradicted that,...

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