Legal Opinion

United States v. Jasick

District Court, E.D. Michigan

Decided August 3, 1918No. 6177PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Louis Jasick was indicted for violation of Act Cong. Feb. 14, 1917, by threatening to inflict bodily injury upon and to take the life of the President of the United States, to which indictment he demurs.

1Opinion of the Court

TUTTLE, District Judge.

This is a demurrer to an indictment. The indictment charges that said defendant, at a time and place specified, “willfully, feloniously, and knowingly did make certain threats to take the life of the President of the United States and against the life of said President, and certain-threats to inflict great bodily harm upon the said President of the United States, to wit, the Honorable Woodrow Wilson, in the verbal use of certain threatening language.” There are two counts in the indictment. The threat made is alleged in the first count to have been that “if he could get…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. United States v. StickrathDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 1917

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. United States v. David L. HoffmanCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
  2. United States v. Ronald Douglas PatilloCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1970
  3. United States v. Veliz, Veliz NovackCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2015
  4. People v. BrooksCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1994
  5. Reid v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1943

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