State v. De Jonge

Dirk De Jonge was convicted of having violated the criminal syndicalism act of this state and sentenced to serve a term of seven years in the penitentiary, notwithstanding the recommendation of the jury for leniency. It is, indeed, a terrible price to pay for warped ideas. With all deference to the conscientious trial judge who imposed such sentence, and for whom I have a high regard, it seems to me that the sentence has no reasonable relation to the offense alleged to have been committed. No act of violence was involved in the case. De Jonge has never before been convicted of crime. However,…