Legal Opinion
Burns v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 16, 1927No. 135PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*330Mr. Justice. Butleb
delivered the opinion of the Court.
An Act of Congress of June 2, 1920, § 1, c. 218, 41 Stat. 731, provides that, if any offense shall be committed in the Yosemite National Park which is not prohibited by a law of the United States, the offender shall be subject to the. same punishment as the) laws of California prescribe for a like offense. Plaintiff in error was indicted for violating within that Park the California Criminal Syndicalism Act, c. 188, California Statutes 1919. The indictment was in two counts. The verdict was guilty on the first count and not guilty on the…
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