Ex Parte Destin Spearman v. the State of Texas

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• holding that the court must determine “whether the classifications drawn in a statute are reasonable in light of its purpose”
• noting that while provisions banning pre-marital sexual relations and adultery may be legitimately applied to all citizens, particular racial groups may not be singled out for punishment
• noting that while provisions banning pre-marital sexual relations and adultery may be legitimately applied to all citizens, particular racial groups may not be singled out for punishment
• requiring a statute drawing a racial classification to be “necessary, and not merely rationally related, to the accomplishment of a permissible state policy”
• rendering unconstitutional a statute that made criminal the co-habitation between an African American and Caucasian person
• rendering unconstitutional a statute that made criminal the co-habitation between an African American and Caucasian person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).