Taylor v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error, Mrs. Lottie E. Taylor, a colored woman, upon an appeal from the judgment of a trial justice, was tried in the Circuit Court of Fairfax county on a warrant charging that on the 12th day of September, 1946, she “did unlawfully cause an unnecessary disturbance in an omnibus or public conveyance by failing to move to another seat when lawfully requested so to move by the operator thereof, said failure being in violation of section 4533a of *216the Code of Virginia.” She pleaded not guilty and waived trial by jury. With the consent of the Commonwealth, the case was then heard…