Robinson v. Florida

A criminal information filed in a Florida state court charged that these eighteen appellants had violated § 509.141 of the Florida Statutes by remaining in a restaurant after the manager had requested them to leave. The material facts are not in dispute and show: Shell’s City Restaurant', which is one of nineteen departments in Shell’s Department Store in Miami, had, at the time of appellants’ arrest, a policy of refusing to serve Negroes. Appellants, Negroes and whites, went as a group into the restaurant and seated themselves at tables. In accordance with the restaurant’s policy, the…