Torado v. Commonwealth

On Saturday evening, March 20, 1926, the plaintiffs in error and twenty-nine other persons were attending a social event at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Leonard, known as Leonard’s Inn, in Penn Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The persons there assembled did not disperse at midnight, but remained there until 3 o’clock A. M., March 21, 1926 (being Sunday morning), when John B. West, a justice of the peace, Constables H. C. Taylor and B. W. Kunkle and Deputy Constables C. Gressler and Glenn N. Welsh entered the said house, at which time said justice of the peace announced to those…