FORD v. STATE


355 S.W.2d 102 (1962)

Evander FORD, Jr., et al., and Katie Jean Robertson v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing Denied May 4, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. W. Willis, Jr., R. B. Sugarmon, Jr., B. L. Hooks, B. F. Jones, H. T. Lockard, Memphis, for plaintiffs in error.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., Walker T. Tipton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.


Rehearing Denied May 4, 1962. See 356 S.W.2d 726.

PREWITT, Chief Justice.

The defendants, Evander Ford, Jr., Alfred O'Neil Cross, James Harrington Smith, Ernestine Hill, Johnnie Mae Rogers, Charles Edward Patterson and Edgar Lee James, were convicted upon the same trial for willfully disturbing an assemblage of persons meeting for religious purposes (Section 39-1204, T.C.A.), and each was sentenced to serve sixty days in...

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