Bacon v. State

The.defendant, Phillip Bacon, appeals from a conviction of assault and battery for which he was sentenced to pay a fine of $25.00 and serve 15 days in the county workhouse.

In late August or early September 1963 defendant, a student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in company with four other young students went to the Weaver Cafeteria on Magnolia Avenue in Knoxville to get lunch. Defendant and two of these students were White; the other two students were Negroes. After obtaining his food defendant went to the table where the two Negroes were eating. Hardy C. Weaver the owner of…