State v. Boyd

The opinion of the court Avas delivered by

Parker, J.

The defendant was indicted under the statute of 1908 set out in the compiled statutes as section 5e of the Crimes act, page 17-44, providing that any person who shall, in public or private by speech, &e., advocate, encourage, justify, praise or incite the unlawful burning or destruction of public or private property, &e., shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor. There A\rere two indictments, both of which charge that there was a public meeting during the strike of silk mill workers, and that at this meeting the accused did unlawfully and…