UNITED STATES v. TOMOYA KAWAKITA

Cr. 19665.

108 F.Supp. 627 (1952)

UNITED STATES v. TOMOYA KAWAKITA.

United States District Court, S. D. California. Central Division.

December 12, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter S. Binns, U. S. Atty., and Ray H. Kinnison, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

Morris Lavine and A. L. Wirin, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant.


MATHES, District Judge.

By unanimous verdict of the jury, following some ten weeks of trial, the defendant was convicted in 1948 of eight overt acts of treason against the United States. United States v. Tomoya Kawakita, D.C. S.D.Cal.1950, 96 F.Supp. 824, 859-861. Our law provides that whoever is guilty of treason shall suffer death or, in the discretion of the court, shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined not...

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