UNITED STATES v. PRESS PUBLISHING CO.

No. 541.

219 U.S. 1 (1911)

UNITED STATES v. PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1911.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James C. McReynolds, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom The Attorney General and Mr. Stuart McNamara, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Delancey Nicoll, with whom Mr. John D. Lindsay and Mr. Raymond D. Thurber were on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

As we have stated, the indictment was based on the act of July 7, 1898, 30 Stat. 717, § 2. The effect of the act, as pointed out in Franklin v. United States, 216 U.S. 559, 568-569, was to incorporate the criminal laws of the several States in force on July 1, 1898, into the statute...

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