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we had to. It happened, we had to go into all of the boards, different boards and habeas corpus hearings that we would have to try, that the state had heard them and so forth. They'd go on to the Supreme Court and then they'd come and take a new shot over in federal court there. Some of the constitutional rights had been disobeyed.
And you know other things that we had coming up too; the length of hair, the length of girl dresses, skirts, mustaches, Van Dyke beards, and all of that. And we had several courts that had to handle such cases as that. Why, I'll never know. I just finished one that I've been hearing motions on for a year in Jackson County, and I just rendered an opinion a week before last. I see by the papers I'm about 50 percent correct and 50 percent wrong by the vote over there after I've come out with it. Why we have to do that I don't know. But I've had Van Dyke beards and all of that. But, you know, contrary to when I was growing up in Magee as a kid, Magee, Mississippi, that we didn't have to go to federal court to determine our
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER