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DREWS v. STATE

[No. 113, September Term, 1960.]

224 Md. 186 (1961)

167 A.2d 341

DREWS ET AL. v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 18, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., with whom were Robert B. Watts, Robert J. Martineau, and Venable, Baetjer & Howard on the brief, for appellants.

Joseph S. Kaufman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, and Frank H. Newell, 3rd, State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.

Decided January 18, 1961. Judgment vacated and remanded, 378 U.S. 547.

HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The four appellants were convicted by the court sitting without a jury of violating Code (1957), Art. 27, Sec. 123, by "acting in a disorderly manner to the disturbance of the public peace" in a "place of public resort or amusement." Two of appellants are white men, one is a white woman, and the other a Negress...

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