State v. Schaffer

Prosecution for sedition. , The charging parts of the three counts of the information are substantially alike, each alleging the use of the following words, viz.: That while the United States of America was engaged in war with the imperial government of Germany, the defendant “did willfully, unlawfully, wrongfully, feloniously and seditiously utter and publish disloyal, profane, violent, contemptuous, slurring and abusive [1] language about the form of government of the United States of America as follows: ‘This government would be better off under German rule and us Germans could then send…