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Mississippi Burning MIBURN Case — Part 9
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to be secure in his person while in the custody
of the State of Mississippi and its agents and
officers, the right and privilege to be immune
from summary punishment without due process of
law, and the right to be tried by due process of
law for an alleged offense and, if found guilty,
to be punished in accordance with the laws of the
State of Mississippi.
"In violation of Section 242 of Title 18 of the
United States Code,
THIRD COUNT
"On or about June 21, 1964, in Neshoba County,
Mississippi, and within the Southern District of .
Mississippi, Lawrence Andrew Rainey, Sheriff of
Neshoba County, Mississippi, Cecil Ray Price, deputy
sheriff of Neshoba County, Mississippi, Richard
Andrew Willis, a patrolman of the Police Department
of Philadelphia, Mississippi, Bernard L. Akin,
Jimmy Arledge, Horace Doyle Barnette, Travis Maryn
otic mi . 4 rl.
Barnette, Olen Lovell Burrage, James T. Harris, Frank
J. Herndon, James E. Jordan, Edgar Ray Killen, Billy
Wayne Posey, Alton Wayne Roberts, Jerry McGrew Sharpe,
Jimmy Snowden, Jimmy Lee Townsend and Herman Tucker,
while acting under color of the laws of the State of
Mississippi, did wilfully assault, shoot and kill
James Earl Chaney, an inhabitant of the State of
Mississippi, then and there in the custody of Cecil
Ray Price, for the purpose and with the intent of
punishing James Earl Chaney summarily and without
due process of law and for the purpose and with the
intent of punishing James Earl Chaney for conduct
not §o punishable under the laws of Mississippi, and
did thereby wilfully deprive James Earl Chaney of
rights, privileges and imminities secured and protected
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