Evelyn Gullatte

"... Investigating a homosexual rape, a federal appeals court has ruled. Thc Sth U S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday ordered the lower court to hear the sult filed by Evelyn Gullatte, whose husband, Robert Gullatte Jr„ was killed by Inmates at Holman Prison. ln Atmore, Ala., thc same day he was transferred to the penitentiary. In the sult, Mrs. Gullatte claimed Corrections Department classification officer John Edward Nagle violated her husband's constitutional rights when hc transferred Gullatte, who was known by prisoners as a "snitch," to a maximum security prison where he was killed. Thc sult claimed that under thc circumstances, the transfer constituted cruel and unusual ..."

"... Tho appeals court reversed a decision by U S District Judge Virgil Pittmon of Mobile, who hod dismissed a against Nagle, classification director with thc stote Department of Corrections. Evelyn Gullatte filed thc sult after hcr son, 47, was found stabbed lo death June 21, 1975, at Holman. Gullatte, a former druggist seving six years for drug violations in Jefferson County, had gained a reputation of being a snitch ofter ho reported thc homosexual gong rape Of a Inmate ..."