WILLIAMS v. RHODEN

No. 79-2884.

629 F.2d 1099 (1980)

Benjamin Harrison WILLIAMS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charlie RHODEN, Charles Tompkins, J. S. Padgett, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

November 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Warren, Jacksonville, Fla. (Court-appointed), for plaintiff-appellant.

Julius F. Parker, Jr., Tallahassee, Fla., for defendants-appellees.

Before VANCE, FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr. and THOMAS A. CLARK, Circuit Judges.


FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the dismissal of a Section 1983 suit for damages filed by Benjamin Harrison Williams, Jr., a prisoner in the Florida state prison system.1

On a standard civil rights complaint form issued by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Williams alleged facts indicating that while detained in the Hamilton...

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