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HAMMOND v. ADKISSON

No. 75-1977.

536 F.2d 237 (1976)

Mattie HAMMOND, Appellant, v. The Honorable Richard B. ADKISSON, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Circuit Judge, and Monroe Love, Pulaski County, Arkansas, Sheriff, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1976.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied June 17, 1976.

As Amended June 30, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Walker, Walker, Kaplan & Mays, Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

John Wesley Hall, Jr., Deputy Pros. Atty., Little Rock, Ark., for appellees.

Before LAY and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges, and URBOM, Chief District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 17, 1976.

LAY, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Mattie Hammond appeals from denial of a writ of habeas corpus by the federal district court. She was convicted under Ark.Stat.Ann. § 41-1412,1 which prohibits:

use of any profane, violent, vulgar, abusive or insulting language ... calculated to arouse to anger the person ... addressed, or to cause a breach of the peace or an assault...

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