In English criminal law . The unlawful assembling of twelve persons or more, to the disturbance of the peace , and not dispersing upon procla- mation. 4 Bl. Comm. 142; 4 Steph. Comm. 273. And see Madisonville v. Bishop, 113 Ky. 100, G7 S. W. 209, 57 L. R. A. 130.