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John W. Perdew '64 was released yesterday from the Americus, Ga., jail where he had been imprisoned since Aug.8...
Judge Elbert Tuttle, chief judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and District Judge Lewis R. Morgan of La Grange, Ga., supported the majority decision...
District Judge J. Robert Elliott of Columbus, Ga., dissented. He said that he would have fixed reasonable ball for the prisoners but "impinge no further on the state courts." He noted that the case is currently pending before the Georgia State Supreme Court and said that the federal court's holding hearings on the case amounted to "unwarranted interference with the state courts...
...hardly likely, but dusting off the long-unused 1871 statute serves a practical purpose: it provides a handy way to keep three annoying white men and one Negro locked up indefinitely. In some communities, so many Negroes are being held prisoner that detention facilities are swamped. In Leesburg, Ga., recently, 20 young girls aged 11 to 15 were kept for as long as a month in a single room without beds or blankets...
...Atlanta, Ga., last June a white minister who tried to enter a segregated church in company with two Negroes was tried under a 112-year-old state law declaring it a misdemeanor to interrupt "in any manner a congregation lawfully assembled for divine worship." He was fined $1,000 and sentenced to a year in prison, plus an extra six months of labor at "public works" after his prison term...