Court Opinion

ID: 9443389
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:19:14.336842+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:28.523747
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On Petition for Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
A petition for rehearing has been filed but it presents no question which we have not already fully considered. Argument is again made that the “literature” and “membership” provisions of the Smith Act are unconstitutional; and we say again, as we said in our original opinion, that we think that the reasoning of the Supreme Court in the case of Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494, 71 S.Ct. 857, 95 L.Ed. 1137, sustains the validity of these as well as the other provisions of the act. Defendants argue that the presence of a clear and present danger is necessary under the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dennis case to conviction under the act. As we attempted to point out in our original opinion, with quotation from the opinion of Mr. Chief Justice Vinson, if “clear and present danger” be necessary to conviction, it was present in the conspiracy here just as it was in the Dennis case. The same conspiracy was involved in both cases. As to the contention that the indictment is defective because it does not allege the existence of clear and present danger, the Dennis case is also a sufficient answer to that. Other contentions of the petition are no more than a rehashing of arguments fully dealt with m the opinion which need not be further considered.
Petition denied.