Legal Opinion
Ex parte Starr
District Court, D. Montana
Decided January 31, 1920No. 794PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Application by E. V. Starr for writ of habeas corpus.
1Opinion of the Court
BOURQUIN, District Judge.
In this habeas corpus it appears that in February, 1918, the Montana Legislature enacted a statute “defining the crime of sedition,” which, in so far as it relates to the flag, is like the federal Espionage Law of May, 1918. In August, 1918, an information was filed in (he state court, charging that in March, 1918, this petitioner had “committed the crime of sedition,” by uttering and publishing contemptuous and slurring language about the flag and language calculated to bring the flag into contempt and disrepute, as follows:
“What is this thing anyway? Nothing but a…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Abrams v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Halter v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Urquhart v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
3Cited by2 opinions
- Walker v. KellarCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1920
- Taylor v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1943