State v. Solomon

LARSON, Justice.

Defendants were convicted in the District Court of Salt Lake County of the crime of participating in a riot, and appeal. The case grew out of the following facts: In August, 1935, the Salt Lake County Emergency Relief Administration announced a cut in the amount of money allocated and that would thenceforth be distributed in the allowances or budgets of the unemployed. A considerable number of unemployed had affiliated themselves with a rather informal and indefinite organization called the National Unemployment Council. Handbills had been passed around among the unemployed…