Barr v. City of Columbia

Barr v. City of Columbia
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 14–15, 1963 Decided June 22, 1964
Full case name	Charles F. Barr, et al. v. City of Columbia
Citations	378 U.S. 146 (more) 84 S. Ct. 1734; 12 L. Ed. 2d 766; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 820
Case history
Prior	Conviction affirmed, 239 S.C. 395, 123 S.E.2d 521, cert. granted, 374 U.S. 804 (1963).
Holding
The state breach of the peace convictions could not stand as there was no evidence to support them, and the criminal trespass convictions were reversed for the reasons stated in Bouie v. City of Columbia.
Court membership
Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Arthur Goldberg
Case opinions
Majority	Black, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Douglas
Concurrence	Goldberg, joined by Warren
Laws applied
US Const. amend. XIV

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Barr v. City of Columbia

Barr v. City of Columbia, 378 U.S. 146 (1964), is a United States Supreme Court decision that reversed the breach of peace and criminal trespass convictions of five African Americans who were refused service at a lunch counter of a department store.^[1] The Court held that there was insufficient evidence to support the breach of peace convictions, and reversed the criminal trespass convictions for the reasons stated in another case that was decided that same day, Bouie v. City of Columbia, which held that the retroactive application of an expanded construction of a criminal statute was barred by due process of ex post facto laws.^[2]