California Supreme Court October 5, 1882, No. 10,775 (People v. Emmons)

Morrison, C. J.:

The indictment found and presented against the defendants charges that “ on the twenty-sixth day of April, 1882, they, acting together and without authority of law, did riot*488ously, unlawfully, and tumultuously assemble together for the purpose, and with the intent, fifty persons and moré of the China nation, whose names are to the jurors unknown, then and there being, etc.