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SUGARMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 345.

249 U.S. 182 (1919)

SUGARMAN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Seymour Stedman and Mr. T.E. Lattimer, for plaintiff in error, submitted.

Mr. John Lord O'Brian, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Alfred Bettman, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

The Espionage Act (June 15, 1917, c. 30, Title I, § 3, 40 Stat. 217, 219) provides that: "Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause or attempt to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States . . . shall be punished." Sugarman was charged with having violated this section on July 24, 1917, by words spoken in an...

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