State v. Peacock

The respondent was indicted for a violation of Sec. 3 of the Uniform Flag Law. Rev. Stat. 1930, Chap. 128. The section in question, referring to our flag or any representation thereof, reads as follows:

“Mutilation. No person shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile, defy, trample upon, or by word or act cast contempt upon any such flag, standard, color, ensign or shield.”

*341The indictment charges that the respondent “on the thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty at Plymouth in the County of Penobscot, aforesaid, did then and there publicly, by word and…