UNITED STATES v. YATES

Crim. No. 22379.

158 F.Supp. 480 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Oleta O'Connor YATES, Defendant.

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

January 28, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., and Norman Neukom, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

Margolis, McTernan & Branton, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant.


MATHES, District Judge.

It is now almost six years since the defendant at the bar, Oleta O'Connor Yates, and thirteen other paid, fulltime functionaries of the Communist Party were on trial in this court under an indictment charging them with conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States [18 U.S.C. § 371] prohibited by the Smith Act [54 Stat. 670 (1940), 18 U.S.C. § 10 (1946), § 2385 (1952)] "by wilfully * * * advocating and teaching the duty...

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