CITY OF SUMTER v. McALLISTER ET AL.

17995

241 S.C. 355 (1962)

128 S.E.2d 419

CITY OF SUMTER, Respondent, v. Marvin McALLISTER, Frances DuBose, May-Frances Moultrie, Rogers LaVerne Robinson and James Charles Levy, Jr., Appellants. CITY OF SUMTER, Respondent, v. Eddie DRUMMOND and Herman K. Harris, Jr., Appellants. CITY OF SUMTER, Respondent, v. Ivor G. MOORE, Appellant. CITY OF SUMTER, Respondent, v. Peter PINCKNEY, Frank LeGren, Jr., Raymond Gadsden (Godsdell), Erthley Witherspoon, Phyllis Gates, LeRoy Sanders, Elijah King, Ronnie Lewis, and Anna L. Inabinet, Appellants. CITY OF SUMTER, Respondent, v. Barbara CAMPBELL et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

November 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Jenkins & Perry, of Columbia, Ernest A. Finney, Jr., of Sumter, and William W. Bennett, of Florence, for Appellants.

Messrs. C.M. Edmunds, of Sumter, and Daniel F. McLeod, Attorney General, and Everett N. Brandon, Assistant Attorney General, of Columbia, for Respondent.


November 28, 1962.

LEWIS, Justice.

The appellants, forty-two Negro students, were convicted in the Recorder's Court for the City of Sumter, South Carolina, of the crime of breach of the peace. Their convictions were sustained on appeal to the circuit court and appeal to this Court followed.

The cases, although involving 16 different warrants, were disposed of in the Recorder's Court in five separate trials...

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