WATTS v. PHELPS

No. 12854.

377 So.2d 1317 (1979)

Charles Arnold WATTS v. C. Paul PHELPS et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 27, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Arnold Watts, in pro. per.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Judy F. Pierce, Staff Atty., Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants C. Paul Phelps, et al.

Before COVINGTON, LOTTINGER and COLE, JJ.


LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a suit by the plaintiff, an inmate at Angola State Penitentiary, who seeks to have certain prison regulations declared unconstitutional and who questions the propriety of his transfer from one prison unit to another without a hearing.

The defendants have appealed from the trial court judgment declaring one of the prison rules unconstitutional on the grounds of cruel and unusual punishment. The plaintiff has appealed the trial court...

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