Legal Opinion
Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
Alabama Court of Appeals
Decided October 23, 1962No. 6 Div. 856PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CATES, Judge.
Shuttlesworth was found guilty under § 856 of the City Code of Birmingham for interfering with the chief of police in the latter’s taking certain Freedom Riders into “protective custody.”
Taking into protective custody we consider to mean the receiving of some one who places himself voluntarily under the protection of a peace officer.
Outside the bus station was a crowd of some 250 to 300 shouting for the police to give way, to let them take care of the Freedom Riders en route to Montgomery who, on the walkout of bus drivers, were stranded in Birmingham. The crowd was trying to…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- District of Columbia v. LittleSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Kennedy v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1958
- Andersen v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1957
- George A. Andersen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
- Harris v. City of TuscaloosaAlabama Court of Appeals · 1926
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Hopkins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1973
- Jackson v. City of Muscle ShoalsCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1974
- Shuttlesworth v. City of BirminghamAlabama Court of Appeals · 1965