Legal Opinion
Hammerschmidt v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 26, 1924No. 254PublishedCited by 360 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
This is a review by certiorari of the conviction of thirteen persons charged in one indictment with the crime of violating- § 37 of the Penal Code. The charge was that the petitioners wilfully and unlawfully conspired to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing and defeating a lawful function of its government, to wit: that of registering for military service all male persons between the ages of twenty-one and thirty as required by the Selective Service Act of May 18, 1917, c. 15, 40 Stat. 76, through the printing, publishing and circulating of handbills, dodgers and other matter…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Haas v. HenkelSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- United States v. BarnowSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Horman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1902
- United States v. PlylerSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- United States v. FosterSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
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3Cited by360 opinions
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- Dennis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Tanner v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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