Campbell v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county: No. 145, to October Term 1867. An indictment was found May 15th 1867, in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county, against John Campbell and others.
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Error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county: No. 145, to October Term 1867. An indictment was found May 15th 1867, in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland county, against John Campbell and others. The 2d count charged that they “ did wilfully and maliciously disturb and interrupt a certain meeting of the school directors of St. Clair township, in said county; they, the said school directors, being then and there lawfully assembled for the purpose of discharging their duty as school directors for the said township of St. Clair, to the evil example of all others in…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, November 16th 1868, by
Read, J.
The 2d count of the indictment charges that the defendants did wilfully and maliciously disturb and interrupt a certain meeting of the school directors of St. Olair township, in said county, they, the said school directors, being then and there lawfully assembled for the purpose of discharging their duty as school directors for the said township of St. Olair ; and the question is, whether the offence so charged is a misdemeanor at common law.
“ The only remaining breach of public order and tranquillity,” says Mr. Bishop in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Respublica v. TeischerSupreme Court of the United States · 1788
3Cited by3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. ShieldsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1912
- Samuel v. BlackwellSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1921
- Commonwealth v. Millhouse, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1964