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BROCK v. NORTH CAROLINA

No. 34.

344 U.S. 424 (1953)

BROCK v. NORTH CAROLINA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 2, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Cahoon argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Ralph Moody, Assistant Attorney General of North Carolina, argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Harry McMullan, Attorney General.

MR. JUSTICE MINTON delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner and two others, Jim Cook and Elmer Matthews, employees on strike from a mill at Tarboro, North Carolina, were arrested for firing five shots from a passing auto into the house of a watchman at the mill, J. D. Wyatt. Wyatt's house was occupied at the time of the shooting by himself, his wife, his daughter and son-in-law, and the latter couple's baby. After...

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