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SHUTTLESWORTH v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM

6 Div. 856.

149 So.2d 921 (1962)

Fred L. SHUTTLESWORTH v. CITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied December 11, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter A. Hall and Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Birmingham, for appellant.

Wm. C. Walker, Birmingham, for appellee.

CATES, Judge.

Shuttlesworth was found guilty under § 856 of the City Code of Birmingham for interfering with the chief of police in the latter's taking certain Freedom Riders into "protective custody."

Taking into protective custody we consider to mean the receiving of some one who places himself voluntarily under the protection of a peace officer.

Outside the bus station was a crowd of some 250 to 300 shouting for the police to give way, to let...

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