Stokes v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. Rose Pastor Stokes was convicted of violating the Espionage Act, and she brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error, Mrs. Stokes, the defendant below and so styled hereafter, was indicted and convicted of three violations of section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917, 40 Stat. c. 30, p. 217, United States Compiled Statutes, Temporary Supplement 1917, § 10212c, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for 10 years for causing the publication of this letter in the Kansas City Star, a newspaper of large circulation in Kansas City and the surrounding country:
“To the Star: I see that it is, after all, necessary to send a statement for publication…
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