State v. Porter

Defendant, James Porter, with four other men, was indicted for the crime of malicious mischief, it being charged that they did wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously and maliciously injure and destroy certain residence fixtures and goods of one W. E. Kruck. Upon trial to a jury, defendant, James Porter, was convicted and has appealed.

Appellant was a representative of the Packing House Workers’ Organizing Committee, and on September 30, 1938, was sent to Sioux City, Iowa, to take charge of a strike then in progress at the Swift & Company packing plant and to negotiate a settlement. He owned a black…