Reverend John M. Perkins v. State of Mississippi

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

This is a case to which we must apply the provisions of Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, 18 U.S.C. § 245, and *8the teachings of Greenwood, Miss. v. Peacock, 384 U.S. 808, 86 S.Ct. 1800, 16 L.Ed.2d 944 (1966).

The appellants were charged in state courts with a variety of misdemeanors such as reckless driving, resisting arrest, interfering with an officer, and the like. The offenses allegedly occurred in Rankin County, the arrests were made in that county, and the charges were brought in that county. Previously, on the same day, the appellants had participated in…