State v. DeWine

OPINION

BY THE COURT:

Each defendant in the Mayor’s Court of the Village of Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio, was charged with, tried, convicted and sentenced for the offense of unlawfully disturbing the peace, good order and quiet of said village on the 22nd of July, 1939.

The offenses set out in the affidavits were characterized as “unusual, unnecessary, disorderly conduct, wrangling and quarreling”. Each defendant prosecuted an appeal on questions of law to the Common Pleas Court of Greene County where the judgments of conviction were reversed because not sustained by the evidence.

There…