DEVINE v. WOOD

Civ. A. No. 2617-N.

286 F.Supp. 102 (1968)

Charlie DEVINE, a/k/a Charlie Levine, James E. Harris, Ulysses Z. Nunnally, Theophilus Smith, Julius Robinson, Haver Willis, Will Henry Rogers, and Stanley R. Wise on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Phillip WOOD, as Sheriff of Autauga County, Alabama; U. G. Jones, as District Attorney for the 19th Judicial Circuit, and Edward W. Drinkard, as County Attorney for Autauga County, Defendants.

United States District Court M. D. Alabama, N. D.

June 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solomon S. Seay, Jr., Gray, Seay, Langford & Pryor, Montgomery, Ala., Howard Moore, Jr., and Peter E. Rindskopf, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Leslie Hall, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.

Before GEWIN, Circuit Judge and JOHNSON and PITTMAN, District Judges.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PER CURIAM:

The plaintiffs, as Negro citizens residing in Alabama, with the exception of Stanley R. Wise who is a resident of Georgia, and as members of the class they represent, filed with the court on November 24, 1967, their complaint seeking a temporary restraining order, a preliminary and permanent injunction enjoining the defendants from prosecuting them for violation of Title 14 Section 407 of the Code of Alabama, and...

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