United States v. Stanley

These cases are all founded on the first and second sections of the act of Congress, known as the Civil Rights Act, passed March 1, 1875, entitled, “An act.to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights.” (18 Stat., 335.) Two of the cases, those against Stanley and Nichols, are indictments for denying to persons of color the accommodations and privileges of an inn or hotel; two of them, those and *146are, one an information, the other an indictment, for denying to individuals the privileges and accommodations of a theatre, the information against Ryan being for refusing a colored person…