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SCOTT v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Nos. 3097 thru 3104.

184 A.2d 849 (1962)

Lawrence SCOTT, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee. Pearl C. EWALD, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee. Florence Y. CARPENTER, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee. Wilmer J. YOUNG, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided October 26, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Scupi, Washington, D. C., with whom Hal Witt and James H. Heller, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Joseph G. Hitselberger, Asst. Corporation Counsel, with whom Chester H. Gray, Corporation Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, QUINN, Associate Judge, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).

CAYTON, Judge.

These eight cases have been brought here by four defendants who were convicted under our disorderly conduct statute which makes guilty of the offense,

"Whoever, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or under circumstances such that a breach of the peace may be occasioned thereby * * * congregates with others on a public street and refuses to move on when ordered by the police * * *." Code 1961, § 22-1121(2).

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