Adams v. United States

HOOD, Chief Judge:

Appellant was convicted of violating the provision of D.C.Code 1967, § 22-1107 which forbids persons to congregate and assemble on a public street and crowd, obstruct, or incommode the free use of such street. We conclude that a reversal of the conviction is required by the recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Williams v. District of Columbia, - U.S.App.D.C. -, - F.2d - (decided June 20, 1969) reversing the decision of this court in Williams v. District of Columbia, 227 A.2d 60 (1967).

In Williams there had been a…