Legal Opinion
People v. Cowgill
Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California
Decided May 27, 1969No. Crim. A. No. 8379PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhyte, P. J.
Defendant was convicted of violating subdivision (d) of section 614 of the Military and Veterans Code which makes it a misdemeanor to publicly mutilate, deface, defile or trample upon a flag of the United States. Defendant admitted that he caused a flag of the United States to he cut and sewn into a vest and wore that vest on the public streets. It is not necessary to determine whether the mutilation stopped with the cutting and sewing in private or whether the entire act of cutting, sewing and wearing were so intertwined as to be one act, at least part of which was done publicly. In any…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Chaplinsky v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Street v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Thornton v. Dennis M.California Supreme Court · 1969
- In Re GianniniCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Delorme v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1973
- People v. RadichNew York Court of Appeals · 1970
- Hodsdon v. BucksonDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1970
- Valarie Goguen v. Joseph Smith, Sheriff of Worcester CountyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1972
- State v. FarrellSupreme Court of Iowa · 1973
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