HARTFIELD v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Nos. 22574-22577, 22720.

367 F.2d 362 (1966)

Jessie HARTFIELD, Appellant, v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Appellee. Carrie D. LAPSY et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF JACKSON, Appellee. Henry HORN et al., Appellants, v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Appellee. Ralph Edwin KING, Jr., et al., Appellants, v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, Appellee. Stephen RUTLEDGE, Appellant, v. CITY OF JACKSON, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara A. Morris, Robert L. Carter, New York City, R. Jess Brown, Jack H. Young, Jackson, Miss., for appellants.

Elizabeth Grayson, J. A. Travis, Jr., E. W. Stennett, Thomas H. Watkins, Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before GEWIN and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and McRAE, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

On motion of appellants, these Removal Cases, 28 U.S.C. § 1443, were argued and submitted as a unit at New Orleans, February 2, 1966. After the appeals had been calendared, however, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the Peacock and Rachel cases. Those cases have been decided and control the Judgments we are now about to enter.

Summarizing very briefly, the State Court prosecutions were as follows:

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