State v. Pettilla

The defendants were convicted of the crime of criminal syndicalism and have made many assignments of error, a renewed discussion of a majority of which is unnecessary, as they have been disposed, of adversely to defendants’ p9sition in many recent cases involving the same section of the criminal law.

Among .these assignments, however, are several which refer to the admission of testimony of several witnesses who were allowed to say upon the stand that they had talked with various persons, at different times and places, who, the witnesses believed, were members of the I. W. W., by reason of the…