State v. Fox

Defendants in their brief state two questions are involved:

“1. Is the ordinance, as applied in the instant case, an unconstitutional interference with the defendants’ rights to freedom of *197speech and peaceable assembly protected against State infringement under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 17, of the North Carolina State Constitution?

“2. Is the ordinance, as applied in the instant case, unconstitutionally vague in that it does not apprise these defendants nor the public generally of the offense prohibited by it?”

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