United States v. Daulong

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Defendant was indicted under the Act of February 14, 1917, 18 U.S.C.A. § 89, penalizing those who make threats against the life of the President of the United States. The bill consists of two counts and the language alleged to have been used is as follows:

(First Count) “If someone does not kill him (the President) he, the defendant, had a notion to do it himself ,* * * ” ; and

(Second Count) “He hoped somebody gets him (the President) tonight, and if somebody did not, he, the defendant, felt like going up there and doing it himself”.

Defendant has moved to quash both…