Bates v. State

GrieeiN Smith, CMef Justice.

Cliristoplier Bates and his wife, Daisy, are Negroes and publish a weekly newspaper in Little Rock- — Arkansas State Press.

Roy Cole, Jesse Bean, and Louis Jones, strikers, were convicted March 19, 1946, under an indictment in which it was charged that “ . . . by the use of force and violence they prevented Otha Williams from engaging in a lawful occupation."

• March 23 each defendant was sentenced to serve a year in prison. ■ They were remanded to custody of the Sheriff with directions for “speedy transportation” to the penitentiary. At that time there was no move…