City of Rock Hill v. Henry

Taylor, Chief Justice.

Appellants here are sixty-five Negroes who were arrested March 15, 1960, and convicted by the City of Rock Hill, South Carolina, of the common law offense of breach of peace.

The record reveals that on the day in question all of those arrested were engaged in singing patriotic and religious songs in a loud and boisterous manner in the City of Rock Hill; that the crowd assumed such proportions that it spread from the sidewalk into the street; that tension was present in the- community resulting from previous demonstrations and threats of bombings had been made; that the…