Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Apr-11-1967
Pierson v. Ray - 386 U.S. 547 (1967) U.S. Supreme Court Pierson v. Ray, 386 U.S. 547 (1967) Pierson v. Ray No. 79 Argued January 11, 1967 Decided April 11, 1967 * 386 U.S. 547 CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Petitioners, ** members of a group of white and Negro clergymen on a "prayer pilgrimage" to promote racial integration, attempted to use a segregated interstate bus terminal waiting room in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961. They were arrested by respondent policemen and charged with conduct breaching the peace in violation of 2087.5 of the Mississippi Code, which this Court, in 1965, held unconstitutional in Thomas v. Mississippi, 380 U. S. 524 , as applied to similar facts. Petitioners waived a jury trial, and were convicted by respondent municipal police justice. On appeal, one petitioner was accorded a trial de novo and, following a directed verdict in his favor, the cases against the other petitioners were dropped...
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