Legal Opinion
Bell v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 9, 1965No. [No. 91, September Term, 1961.]PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hammond, J.,
delivered the majority opinion of the Court. Oppenheimer, J., dissents. Dissenting opinion at page 369 infra.
The appellants were convicted in 1961 in the Criminal Court of Baltimore of violation of Code (1957), Art. 27, Sec. 577 (Trespass), which prohibits “wanton trespass upon the private land of others.” They were civil rights demonstrators who sat in Hooper’s restaurant in Baltimore, refusing to leave until the establishment departed from its fixed practice of not serving negroes. The judgments of conviction were affirmed by this Court in January 1962, Bell v. State, 227 Md.…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- United States v. Schooner PeggySupreme Court of the United States · 1801
- Bell v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- United States v. La FrancaSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- State v. GerhardtIndiana Supreme Court · 1896
- Bruner v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
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3Cited by49 opinions
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- Mayor of Baltimore v. SitnickCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1969
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