State v. Tachin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

The defendants were convicted of the violation of section 2 of the supplement of 1918 to the Crimes act. Pamph L., p. 130. The specific charge ivas that they attempted by speecli tu incite, abet, promote and encourage hostility and opposition to the government of the United States in that in the presence of divers good people then and there assembled they said with a loud voice to the persons there assembled in substance that the present war in which the government of the United States is engaged with Germany was a war for the benefit of the…