STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MORRIS

Civ. No. 5348.

236 F.Supp. 780 (1965)

STATE OF TENNESSEE ex rel. Evander FORD, Jr., et al., Petitioners, v. Honorable William N. MORRIS, Jr., Sheriff, Shelby County, Tennessee, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court W. D. Tennessee, W. D.

January 5, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. B. Sugarmon, Jr., B. L. Hooks, A. W. Willis, H. T. Lockard, B. F. Jones, I. H. Murphy, Memphis, Tenn., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., New York City, for petitioners.

Phil M. Canale, Jr., Dist. Atty. Gen., Robert K. Dwyer, James C. Beasley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Memphis, Tenn., for respondents.


BAILEY BROWN, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed by eight persons, all of the Negro race, who were convicted in the Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, of wilfully disturbing a religious assembly. Petitioners contend that their convictions cannot stand in that they violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

At the trial in state court, petitioners raised, by way of a motion to dismiss and later...

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