State v. Rempel
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendants were separately indicted by the grand jury of Watonwan county charged with the crime of advocating by oral speech that the citi - zens of Minnesota should not aid or assist the United States in prosecuting war with its public enemies, tried in the district court for that county before Comstock, J., and a jury which returned verdicts of guilty as charged in the indictments. From the judgments entered on the verdicts, defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtDibell, J.
The defendants Bernhard Rempel and Peter W. Rempel were separately indicted and on separate trials each was convicted of wrongfully and unlawfully advocating by oral speech that the citizens of the state should not aid and assist the United States in prosecuting and carrying on the war with its public enemies. Each appeals from the judgment of *51conviction entered. The appeals were argued together and are conveniently considered together.
The two Eempels live in the village of Butterfield, Watonwan county. Both were born in Eussia. On Sunday, July 21, 1918, between eight and nine in the morning,…
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