Legal Opinion
State v. Hotham
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided July 9, 1973PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEBBER, Justice.
The appellant was convicted of a violation of 17 M.R.S.A., Sec. 3701 which in pertinent part provides:
“Whoever makes, publishes or sends to another any communication, written or oral, containing a threat to injure the person or property of any person shall be punished * *
It is suggested that the statute may suffer from unconstitutional vagueness and overbreadth. The answer to this contention lies in the construction we have placed upon the statute and particularly in the meaning we have assigned to the key word “threat” as used therein. In Haynes, Petitioner v. Robbins (1962)…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Roth v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Gooding v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Watts v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Beauharnais v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
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3Cited by20 opinions
- State v. HoweNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1976
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- State v. PorterSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978
- State v. MichaudSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1984
- Otte v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1977
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