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MILLS v. ALABAMA

No. 597.

384 U.S. 214 (1966)

86 S.Ct. 1434

16 L.Ed.2d 484

MILLS v. ALABAMA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 23, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Perrine and Alfred Swedlaw argued the cause and filed a brief for appellant.

Leslie Hall, Assistant Attorney General of Alabama, and Burgin Hawkins argued the cause for appellee. With them on the brief was Richmond M. Flowers, Attorney General.

Briefs of amici curiae, urging reversal, were filed by James C. Barton for the Alabama Press Association et al., and by Charles Morgan, Jr., Melvin L. Wulf and C. H. Erskine Smith for the American Civil Liberties Union et al.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question squarely presented here is whether a State, consistently with the United States Constitution, can make it a crime for the editor of a daily newspaper to write and publish an editorial on election day urging people to vote a certain way on issues submitted to them.

On November 6, 1962, Birmingham, Alabama, held an election for the people to decide whether they preferred to keep their...

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