Although they married in Washington, DC, they returned to live in Caroline County, where they were arrested and charged under the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924.
二人はワシントンD.C.で結婚したが、キャロライン郡に戻ったところで、州法、1924年の人種統合法の下に逮捕され告発された。