George Albert Williams v. District of Columbia

*640McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal, by leave of this court, from an affirmance by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 227 A.2d 60 (1967), of a conviction in the Court of General Sessions for the use in a public street of “profane language, indecent and obscene words” in violation of 22 D.C.Code § 1107 (1967) — a disorderly conduct statute which has remained virtually unchanged since 1898. A division of this court first heard the matter and, with one judge dissenting, affirmed, although only after attributing to the trial court a construction of the statute more restrictive than…