State v. Russell

Burke, Ch. J.

On the 13th day of February, 1935, the state’s attorney of Cass county filed, in the county court, of Cass county, an information charging the defendants, James Russell, R. J. Diermert, Hugh Grieve, Melvin Jarnson, Arvid Johnson, Adam McLaughlin, Carl Pilcher, Errol Peterson, A. G. Lattin, Austin Swalde, Roy Lattin, Leo Kakuschke, Hugh Hughes, Jack Eastman, William Cruden and Truman C. Peterson, with the crime of riot. After a trial before a jury the said defendants were convicted and from the judgment of conviction and the order denying a new trial the defendants duty appeal.

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