City of Beaufort v. Rickenbaker

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Stuices.

The appellant was one of twelve persons, men and women, who entered the City of Beaufort very early on Sunday morning, June 30, 1940, and at about first daylight distributed religious pamphlets on the porches of the residents. Some of the latter complained of the disturbance to a policeman on duty who arrested the appellant and she was later tried in the mayor’s Court and convicted of the violation of the following quoted ordinance: “Every person, who shall by provoking or insulting epithets, words, or gestures, attempt to…