United States v. Robinson
District Court, S.D. New York
At Law. J. Willard Robinson was indicted for treason. On motion to direct a verdict at the close of the government’s case. This is a motion to direct a verdict at the close of the government’s case. The defendant'was indicted on January 20, 1919, for treason under three counts.
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At Law. J. Willard Robinson was indicted for treason. On motion to direct a verdict at the close of the government’s case. This is a motion to direct a verdict at the close of the government’s case. The defendant'was indicted on January 20, 1919, for treason under three counts. The first alleged that after April 6, 1917, the defendant gave aid and comfort to the German government while war existed between it and the United - States, by conveying messages, oral or in invisible ink, from the city of Halifax, Canada, to the city of Rotterdam, Holland, and communicating and delivering the same to…
1Opinion of the CourtLearned Hand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The evidence in this case is amply sufficient to sustain a verdict for the government were the crime charged other than treason, and I shall confine myself, therefore, simply to the consideration of whether the rule has been satisfied which is peculiar to that crime; that is, whether any overt act of treason is supported by the testimony of two witnesses.
The words “overt act” go back to the original statute of the 25th Ed. III. Under chapter 3 of 21 Rich. II no overt act was necessary for two years, until it was again reintroduced by chapter 10 of the 1st…
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