HINSHAW v. DOFFER

No. 85-1226.

785 F.2d 1260 (1986)

George HINSHAW, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bob DOFFER, Individually and as Chief of Police, Perryton, Texas; Ron Wyrick, Individually and as a Police Officer, Perryton, Texas, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne P. Sturdivant, Gibson, Ochsner & Adkins, Amarillo, Tex., Marian M. Holmes, Perryton, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Betty Wheeler, Hoffman & Wheeler, Amarillo, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GOLDBERG, HILL and JONES, Circuit Judges.


ROBERT MADDEN HILL, Circuit Judge:

In this civil rights action, defendants-appellants Bob Doffer and Ron Wyrick, the former police chief and a police officer, respectively, of Perryton, Texas, appeal from individual and joint and several judgments entered against them following a jury trial. Finding the judgments against Doffer unsupported by the evidence, the judgments against Wyrick supported by the evidence, and Wyrick's other grounds of error without merit, we...

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