People v. Thornton

Under the provisions of subdivision 4 of section 2 of the act defining the crime of criminal syndicalism and sabotage and providing penalties and punishment therefor (Stats. 1919, p. 281), defendant was charged by an indictment returned by the grand jury of Kern County with having committed the following offense, to wit: The said Felix Thornton, on or about the third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, at Delano, in the said county of Kern, state of California, did then and there willfully, unlawfully, knowingly, and feloniously become and remain a member of an organization…