 | The Cavalier daily Wednesday, March 10, 1971 |  |
Arrest
William Sylvester Jones and Roy Lee
Ferguson Jr. were arrested during disturbances
in the downtown area on September 8, 1968
and were given six month jail sentences
following their convictions in the city's
Corporation Court.
In its ruling, the court sustained arguments
by a lawyer for the men who said that the
anti riot law was so vague and over broad as to
infringe on the rights of free speech and
peaceful assembly guaranteed by the U.S. and
Virginia constitutions.
In the opinion, written by Justice Thomas
C. Gordon Jr., the court said the law makes
unlawful an assembly of persons without
authority of law and for the purpose of
disturbing the peace or exciting public alarm or
disorder.
| The Cavalier daily Wednesday, March 10, 1971 | |