An interracial couple married in Washington D.C. with plans to return to their home state of Virginia, which strictly prohibited interracial marriage and did not allow no black person to live with a white person as husband and wife. Mildred Jeter, who was black, and her husband Richard Loving, who was white, decided to return to their home state of Virginia in 1958. In October they were charged with unlawful cohabitation and were immediately sent to prison. In the eyes of the judges they violated Virginia Code 20-59 which stated: "Leaving the State to evade the law. - If a white person or a colored person leaves this State, for the purpose of marrying, and with the intention of returning and marrying outside it, and then returning and residing there, living together as husband and wife, will be punished as provided in § 20-59, and the marriage will be governed by the same law as if it had been celebrated in this State. The fact of Their cohabitation here as husband and wife will constitute proof of their marriage." (“Loving ET UX v. Virginia”) The couple was sentenced to one year....