United States v. Pape

FITZHENRY, District Judge.

The demurrer to this indictment is to its substance. The indictment contains two counts. The first charges that the defendant, on the 18th day of April, 1918, at Quincy, Adams county, 111., at a time when the country was at war, did, “with intent to interfere with the operation and success of the military and naval forces of the United States, and to promote the success of its enemies,” in the presence and hearing of divers persons, there state:

“He would not subscribe to the Liberty Loan bonds; that it was a matter of principle with him,; that he did not want the war…