His sentence was six months imprisonment and a fine. Rape cases carried a five or ten dollar fine although in some states the statutes called for life imprisonment or death. Of course this includes cases where the crime involves only Negroes. No one needs to wonder then, why crime, among Negroes, is on the increase in those ten cities, after reading a few police reports and criminal court cases. Indifferent judges must learn that crime, no matter against whom it is committed, is punishable as the law prescribes, and that the color of those involved should, not by any means, be a determining factor.
Crime challenges the efficiency of our established code of morals.