Ford v. State

The defendants, Evander Ford, Jr., Alfred O’Neil Cross, James Harrington Smith, Ernestine Hill, Johnnie Mae Bogers, Charles Edward Patterson and Edgar Lee James, were convicted upon the same trial for willfully disturbing an assemblage of persons meeting for religious purposes (Section 39-1204, T.C.A.), and each was sentenced to serve sixty days in the Shelby County Penal Farm, plus of fine of $200.00.

The defendant, Katie Jean Bobertson, was tried separately, she not being available at the time of the first trial, and was convicted of the same offense and sentenced to serve sixty days and…