Any collection of people, assembled for the purpose and with the intention of committing an assault or a battery upon any person or an act of violence as defined in § 19.2-297.1, without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob."
Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-38
"Mob" defined
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 58 Va. App. 625 - Johnson v. Commonwealth (2011)
Most recently applied in 58 Va. App. 625 - Johnson v. Commonwealth (August 2011)
Code 1950, § 18.1-27; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1999, c. 623.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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