Crabb v. State

OPINION

COHEN, Justice.

This case requires us to decide whether trespass at an abortion clinic was legally justified in order to protect life and health; to defend third persons; or due to necessity. We must also decide whether appellants’ rights to free speech were violated when the trial court ordered them not to picket or demonstrate at the clinic while on probation. Finding that the trespass was not justified under the penal code, and that the condition of probation is not unconstitutional, we affirm the judgment.

In a joint jury trial, appellants were found guilty of criminal trespass of a…