Smith v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. Appeal in error from the Criminal Court of Davidson County. J. M. Andekson, J.
1Opinion of the CourtSnodgrass, C. J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted under the Act of 1891, Ch. 52, for unlawfully failing, neglecting, and refusing to assign certain negroes to the car and compartment of car used on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad *495for colored passengers, and for permitting them to ride in the car and compartment thereof assigned to white passengers. He appealed, and contests here the correctness of the judgment, upon the ground that the Act referred to is invalid, as a regulation of interstate commerce, and in violation of the Constitution of the United States on that subject, Article 1,…
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