Jones v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is unlawful assembly; the fine as to each of the 18 appellants was $100.00.

At most, the State proved that the 18 accuseds, some white and some colored, at least one of whom had in his possession a railway ticket entitling him to travel to the State of California, presented themselves at the Union Station restaurant in Houston, which would seat ninety-four patrons and was only partially filled and which was located from four railroads engaged in interstate commerce and located in the Union Terminal building, with the only entrances opening into the terminal, and…