Case Name: MEYER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-05-21
Citations: 212 S.W. 504
Docket Number: No. 5358
Parties: MEYER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 212
Pages: 504–504

Head Matter:
(85 Tex. Cr. R. 342)
MEYER v. STATE.
(No. 5358.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 21, 1919.)
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Travis County; James R. Hamilton, Judge.
Joe Meyer was convicted for uttering language disloyal to the United States and under circumstances reasonably calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
E. A. Berry, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, J.
The appeal is from a judgment condemning appellant to confinement in the penitentiary for two years, upon conviction under an indictment which charged that he uttered certain language in the presence and hearing of a named citizen of the United States, which language was disloyal to the United States, calculated to bring it into disrepute, and said under circumstances reasonably calculated to provoke a breach of the peace.
There are no statement of facts nor bills of exceptions. ' The validity of the act of the Legislature (Acts 35th Leg. [4th Called Sess.] c. 8), under which the prosecution is had, in so far as it bekrs on the facts charged, was upheld in the case of Ex parte Ben E. Meckel (No. 5081) 220 S. W. 81, this day decided.
The judgment is affirmed.