Commonwealth v. Gowan

TAMILIA, Judge:

The appellants, Ronnie M. McRae and Daniel W. Gowen, appeal pro se to this Court from judgments of sentence entered on July 5, 1988 following their convictions of disorderly conduct in violation of 18 Pa.C.S. § 5503(a)(2).

§ 5503. Disorderly conduct(a) Offense defined.—A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:(2) makes unreasonable noise;

On November 2, 1987, the appellants, preachers of the Anabaptists’ faith, were preaching and distributing religious literature to…