State v. Omes

The accused was found guilty and sentenced on a bill of information reading that he did—

“with force and arms * * * willfully and maliciously go into a coach of the N. O. Lower Coast Railroad train, which said coach was assigned by said railroad for white passengers, and did then and there occupy a seat in said coach among the white passengers riding on said train, contrary to the form of the statute of the state of Louisiana in such case made and provided, and against the dignity and peace of the same.”

*677The statute in question is Act 111 of 1S90, which, requires railroads to provide separate…