COMMONWEALTH v. ABNEY et al.


195 Pa.Super. 317 (1961)

Commonwealth v. Abney et al., Appellants.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

June 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon H. Fox, Jr., with him Fox and Fox, for appellants.

Jules Bell, Assistant District Attorney, with him Harold W. Spencer, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., ERVIN, WRIGHT, WOODSIDE, WATKINS, MONTGOMERY, and FLOOD, JJ.


OPINION BY WOODSIDE, J., June 15, 1961:

This is an appeal by five of 14 defendants who were sentenced after a jury found them guilty of participating in a riot. The appellants contend that the judgments of sentence imposed upon them should be arrested, or in lieu thereof, that a new trial should be granted each of them.

Following a football game on September 25, 1959, in Norristown between the high schools of that borough and of Ridley Township, a continual...

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