U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1918

Clark v. United States

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · Decided April 1, 1918 · Batts, Grubb, Walker

250 F. 449; 162 C.C.A. 519; 1918 U.S. App. LEXIS 1920

Counsel

T. U. Foster, of Beaumont; Tex., for plaintiff in error., Clarence Merritt, U. S. Atty., of McKinney, Tex., and J. B. Dailey, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Paris, Tex.

Cases that cite this one

8 later published cases cite this decision.

Robert Watts v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1968)
Watts v. United States (Supreme Court of the United States 1969)
United States v. Ogren (U S Navy Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals 1999)
People v. Brooks (Cal. Ct. App. 1994)
United States v. Mary Frances Carrier (2d Cir. 1982)
Reid v. United States (5th Cir. 1943)
United States v. Reid (District Court, W.D. Louisiana 1943)
Ragansky v. United States (7th Cir. 1918)

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Opinion of the Court

BATTS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error was convicted under the act of Congress of February 14, 1917, for the use of the following language, alleged by the indictment to have been with reference to the President:

“Wilson is a wooden-headed son of a bitch. I wish Wilson was in hell, and if I had the power I would put him there.”

A motion to quash the indictment was properly overruled. United States v. Stickrath (D. C.) 242 Fed. 151.

The judgment is affirmed.

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