Due Process

DUE PROCESS - The idea that laws and legal proceedings must be fair. The Constitution guarantees that the government cannot take away a person's basic rights to 'life, liberty or property, without due process of law.' Courts have issued numerous rulings about what this means in particular cases. (Lectlaw.com)

Walter Burgwyn Jones served in the Alabama state legislature from 1919 to 1920. He was then a circuit court judge until 1935. Jones was a presiding judge from 1935 to 1963.
In the 1956 Presidential election, faithless elector W. F. Turner cast his vote for Jones, who was a circuit court judge in Turner's home town, for President of the United States and Herman E. Talmadge for Vice President, instead of voting for Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. (Wikepedia)

T. Eric Embry was a Superme Court Justice in Alabama. Justice Embry, who as a trial lawyer represented The New York Times in what became the landmark libel case New York Times Company v. Sullivan. (New York Times).

Walter Burgwyn Jones wrote an article called "Alabama Pleading and Practice of Law". Jones later over ruled his own article.

It seems these two men were both involved in a civil rights case in Alabama. These men were also determined to not let black people have any rights.