CORRETT v. Commonwealth

Appellant, Linwood Corbett, on a plea of not guilty, was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury and convicted on a warrant charging that he did “unlawfully assemble without authority of law and for the purpose of disturbing the peace and exciting alarm or disorder” under Code, § 18.1-254.1 (c).(1) His punishment was *305fixed at a fine of twenty-five dollars and imposition of further sentence was suspended during good behavior for twelve months. To this judgment we granted Corbett a writ of error.

On April 7, 1968 the City of Richmond experienced a series of civil disorders in the…