Thomas v. District of Columbia

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

By separate informations filed in the Police Court of the District of Columbia it was charged that the plaintiffs in error on June 27, 1936, “in the District of Columbia aforesaid, and on Georgia Avenue, north west, did then and there throw, push, cast, deposit, drop, scatter, distribute and leave certain handbills, paper, circulars, on said street, and in a place where from the same is [were] likely to be taken up by the wind and scattered in the street contrary to and in violation of the Police Regulations in such case made and provided, and constituting a law of…