People v. Lloyd

Mr. Chiee Justice Thompson

delivered the opinion of the court:

Thirty-nine members of the communist labor party were indicted by the March, 1920, grand jury of the criminal court of Cook county for conspiracy. Twenty of them were arrested, tried and convicted. Two of those convicted were not sentenced,—Max Bedacht, of San Francisco, who failed to appear for sentence, and Edwin Firth, who died before judgment was entered. The eighteen who were sentenced on the verdict are plaintiffs in error here. They are, William Bross Lloyd and Arthur Procter, each sentenced to imprisonment in the…