Legal Opinion
State v. Fox
Washington Supreme Court
Decided November 29, 1912No. 10451PublishedCited by 22 opinions
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Chapman, J., entered February 6, 1912, upon a trial and conviction of editing printed matter tending to encourage disrespect for law.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, C. J.
The appellant was convicted upon a charge of editing printed matter tending to encourage disrespect for law. He was sentenced to a term of two months in the county jail of Pierce county. He appeals from that judgment, and assigns several errors, which we shall briefly notice.
This prosecution is based upon Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2564, which provides as follows:
“Every person who shall willfully print, publish, edit, issue, or knowingly circulate, sell, distribute or display any book, paper, document, or written or printed matter, in any form, advocating, encouraging or inciting, or having a…
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