(a) A person commits the crime of rioting if he knowingly assembles with six (6) or more other persons and agrees with such persons to violate any of the criminal laws of this city, this state or of the United States with force or violence, and thereafter, while still so assembled, does violate any of such laws with force or violence.

    (b) Rioting is a class A misdemeanor.

(Code 1964, § 7.860)

     State law reference(s)--Similar provisions, RSMo. § 574.050.