Court Opinion

ID: 8811734
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 15:05:04.933292+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:04:19.071879
License: Public Domain

AMIDON, District Judge.
The defendant was convicted upon an indictment charging him with violating the second and third clauses of section 3 of the Espionage Act (Act June 15, 1917, c. 30, tit. 1, 40 Stat. 219 [Comp. St. 1918, § 10212c]). Counts 2 and 5 charge the use of certain language for the purpose of causing disloyalty, insubordination, mutiny, and refusal of duty in the military forces, in violation of clause 2 of the section referred to; counts 3 and 6 charge the use of the same language with intent to willfully obstruct the recruiting and enlistment service, in violation of clause 3. As some of the language is offensive, we do not deem it necessary to set it out. Both the language and the circumstance under which it was used were, in our judgment, of a character to justify the court in submitting the case'to,the jury under counts 3 and 6 of the indictment. As the punishment was not greater than that permitted upon either count, and the sentences run concurrently, we do not express any opinion as to counts 2 and 5.
The errors relied upon have all‘been ruled, in decisions filed since the writ was sued out in the present case, adversely to the defendant, both by this court and the Supreme Court. Doe v. United States, 253 Fed. 903, - C. C. A. -, O’Hare v. United States, 253 Fed. 539, — C. C. A. -; Debs v. United States, 249 U. S. 211, 39 Sup. Ct. 252, 63 L. Ed. -; Schenck v. United States, 249 U. S. 47, 39 Sup. Ct. 247, 63 L. Ed. —; Frohwerk v. United States, 249 U. S. 204 -, 39 Sup. Ct. 249, 63 L. Ed. —.
The judgment is affirmed.