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FROHWERK v. UNITED STATES

No. 685.

249 U.S. 204 (1919)

39 S.Ct. 249

63 L.Ed. 561

FROHWERK v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 10, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frans E. Lindquist and Mr. Joseph D. Shewalter for plaintiff in error.

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 HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an indictment in thirteen counts. The first alleges a conspiracy between the plaintiff in error and one Carl Gleeser, they then being engaged in the preparation and publication of a newspaper, the Missouri Staats Zeitung, to violate the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, c. 30, § 3, 40 Stat. 217, 219. It alleges as overt acts the preparation and circulation of twelve articles, &c. in the said newspaper...

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