City of Sumter v. McAllister

Lewis, Justice.

The appellants, forty-two Negro students, were convicted in the Recorder’s Court for the City of Sumter, South Carolina, of the crime of breach of the peace. Their convictions were sustained on appeal to the circuit court and appeal to this Court followed.

The cases, although involving 16 different warrants, were disposed of in the Recorder’s Court in five separate trials, with five separate appeals to this Court. Because the same basic facts and issues are involved in all of them, they were consolidated for argument and we have concluded that they may be properly disposed of in…