United States v. Holmes County, Mississippi

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

In this 1963 civil rights voter-registration case, the United States sought injunctive and other relief against various officers of Holmes County, Mississippi, for violation of voting rights under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1971 1 of Negroes residing in that county. Postponing decision pending various legislative developments and intervening judicial decisions we see again that “[t]ime, tide, and now and then the law wait on no man. But here by waiting, time and outside events have worked toward an affirmance of * * * [a decision] of possible initial limited mortality.” Student…