Legal Opinion
Edwards v. South Carolina
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 25, 1963No. 86PublishedCited by 918 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The petitioners, 187 in number, were convicted in a magistrate’s court in Columbia, South Carolina, of the *230common-law crime of breach of the peace. Their convictions were ultimately affirmed by the South Carolina Supreme Court, 239 S. C. 339, 123 S. E. 2d 247. We granted certiorari, 369 U. S. 870, to consider the claim that these convictions cannot be squared with the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
There was no substantial conflict in the trial evidence.1 Late in the morning of March 2, 1961, the petitioners, high school and college students of the Negro race, met at…
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