McGHEE v. COMMONWEALTH


177 S.E.2d 649 (1970)

211 Va. 434

H. G. McGHEE v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

November 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. W. Tucker, Richmond (J. L. Williams, Ruth L. Harvey, Danville, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, New York City, Hill, Tucker & Marsh, Richmond, on brief), for plaintiff in error.

D. Gardiner Tyler, Former Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., William H. Fuller, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendant in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON, COCHRAN and HARMAN, JJ.


COCHRAN, Justice.

This case arose from racial demonstrations which occurred in Danville during the spring and summer of 1963.

On June 6, 1963, the Corporation Court of Danville entered a temporary injunction order restraining four defendants named therein and persons acting in concert with them, from certain specified acts or conduct. Thereafter, numerous arrests were made for alleged violations of this temporary injunction. See Rollins v. Commonwealth...

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