Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-06-10
SIT-INS
\ Five Cases Returned
!. To Courts in Virginia

s'SAAsAN
Lee highway, on June 10, 1860.
The convictions, in Arlington
County Circuit Court. were
upheld by the Virginia Su-
preme Court Of Appeals in a
brief opinion that said the
lower courts judgment was
plainly right"
LYNCHBURG.--A 16-year-
old Negro girl was sentenced
to serve 30 days in Jail after
arrest with five other persons
on trespass charges for refusal
to leave a drugstore lunch
counter on February Is, 1861.
Hers was the only conviction
appealed to the Supreme Court.
The appeal said State police
and court action had enforced
discrimination and stifled the
right OF free expression.
LYNCHBURG.-Ten Negroes,
eight of them ministers, were
charged with trespass after sit
ms at the Patterson Drug Store
on February Is and February
81, 1861. The Virginia Supreme
Court of Appeals upheld the
convictions. The present appeal
said Virginia had encouraged
such discrimination and the
trial in a segregated courtroom
involved violations of consti-
tutional rights.
HOPEWELL, - Twenty EIGHT
young Negroes we're placed on
six-month probation on tres
pass charges after sit-ins at a
drugstore lunch counter be-
tween August %, 1860, and
April ~. 1861. They appealed
directly from Hopewell Circuit
Court to the Supreme Court
because Virginia law did not
allow them to appeal their mis-
demeanor convictions as pau
pers to the Virginia Supreme
Court Of Appeals.
The high court took no ac-
ton on the following cases, IN
which appeals have been filed:
WOODLAND. Md. Three
white persons and q Negro
woman were arrested on dis
orderly conduct charges after
refusing to leave Gwynn Oak
Amusement Park In Baltimore
County on September 9, 1859.
The Maryland Court of APP
peals, in upholding the convic-
tons. said the park had a legal
right to maintain a business
policy Of excluding Negroes.
HOPEWELL, WA e.
year-old Negro woman and two
students sued after sit-in ar
rests Of demonstrators in 4
Hopewell and Petersburg to re-
strain enforcement of two 1860
amendments to Virginia tres
pass laws allcgedly adopted to
support lunch-counter segrega-
ton. A three-judge Federal
District Court dismissed the
suit in 1861, stating the Sec
tons had been applied evenly
against both whites and Me-
groes.
! MONROE, N. c. - A Negro
man was convicted Of trespass
after entering a drugstore with
his son and nearly a dozen
other teen-agers on March IL,
1860, seeking service at the |
soda fountain. The North Car
olina Supreme Court found no
error. relying upon its ruling |
in an earlier slt-in case that (
the Supreme Court ordered re-
considered last month when it
handed down its sit-in deci-
sions.
RALEIGH, N. C.-Two Negro
students from Shaw University /
were charged with trespass on
March 81, 1860. after refusing
to leave a McCrory-M elan
Store lunch counter. The North
Carolina Supreme Court, in up
holding the convictions, said
private restaurant operators
have a right to select clientele
on the basis Of race and the
trespass convictions represented |
neutral" law enforcement.
CHARLESTON, s. c.
Twenty-four Negro high school |
students we're convicted Of |
trespass after a 51a-hour sit-in
at a Kress department store
lunch counter on April l, 1860. !
The South Carolina Supreme
Court, in upholding the con-
victions. said that private
restaurants can select clientele
on q racial basis and that con-
stitutional rights we're not vio-
lated by the enforcement Of
trespass laws.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Eight
Negroes we're convicted on
charges Of disturbing a religi-
Gus assembly after they took
seats among whites at a church
youth rally at an open-air au-
ditorium on August 80, 1860. |
The Tennessee Supreme Court,
which upheld the convictions,
said their right TO be there was
not the issue. The State court
stated that their actions had
completely disrupted" the
service being held there.