Commonwealth v. Janoff

Campbell, P. J.,

The indictment charges that defendants did unlawfully expose or cause to be exposed to public view the flag of the United States of. America upon which was printed, painted or otherwise placed, letters of the alphabet spelling out, “Make Love not War The New American Revolutionaries”.

The basis of the indictment is the flag desecration statute of this Commonwealth: 18 PS §4211. The statute as it applies to the indictment herein reads, in part, as follows:

“Whoever . . . exposes ... to public view any . . . flag . . . upon which shall be printed, painted or other*594wise placed . . .…