(KNZA)--A former Doniphan County Sheriff’s deputy has been placed on one year supervised probation after pleading no contest to the battery of an inmate.

Raymond Hall entered the plea last week in Doniphan Court District Court to the misdemeanor charge, canceling a bench trial which had been set for April 18.

In exchange of the plea, a misdemeanor charge of mistreatment of a confined person was dismissed.

As part of the terms of his probation, Hall is prohibited from being employed as a law enforcement officer while on probation.

Charges were filed against Hall last November, with the complaint naming James Groh as the victim in the case.

Hall had been a sheriff’s deputy since September 2013.  Prior to that, he served as a Wathena police officer and chief of police.  

Nemaha County Attorney Brad Lippert served as special prosecutor in the case.