People v. Roe

The defendant was indicted and tried for and convicted of the crime of violating certain provisions of the act of the legislature of 1919 penalizing what is generically described by said act as “criminal syndicalism.” (Stats. 1919, p. 281.) He presented a motion for a new trial, which was denied, and the appeals are from the judgment and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The defendant, for a reversal of the judgment and the order, contends: 1. That the indictment is violative of sections 950, 951, and 952 of the Penal Code, in that the purported statement therein of the act or acts…