Hammerschmidt v. United States

DONAHUE, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs in error were jointly tried and convicted in the United States District Court on an indictment charging an unlawful conspiracy to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful function of the government of the United States, to wit, the registration for military service of all male persons between the ages of 21 and 30, both inclusive, as provided by the Act of Congress passed May 18, 1917 (Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, §§ 2044a-2044k), by printing or having printed and publishing, displaying, or causing to’be…