VON MOLTKE v. GILLIES

No. 73.

332 U.S. 708 (1948)

VON MOLTKE v. GILLIES, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE DETROIT HOUSE OF CORRECTION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 19, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Leslie Field argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.

Frederick Bernays Wiener argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Perlman, Robert S. Erdahl and Philip R. Monahan.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK announced the judgment of the Court and an opinion in which MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, MR. JUSTICE MURPHY, and MR. JUSTICE RUTLEDGE concur.

The petitioner was indicted for conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act of 1917.1 The specific charge was that, in order to injure the United States and to aid the German Reich, she and twenty-three others had conspired during the second World War to collect and deliver vital military information...

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