Abrams v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP NEW YORK. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clarke
On a single indictment, containing four counts, the five plaintiffs in error, hereinafter designated the defendants, were convicted of conspiring to violate provisions of the *617Espionage Act of Congress (§ 3, Title I, of Act approved June 15,1917, as amended May 16, 1918, 40 Stat. 553).
Each of the first three counts charged the defendants with conspiring, when the United States was at war with the Imperial Government of Germany, to unlawfully utter, print, write and publish: In the first count, “disloyal, scurrilous and abusive language about the form of Government of the United States; ” in…
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