Wright

The defendants above named were jointly charged, by information, filed in the superior court of Plumas County, with the crime of “criminal syndicalism,” as that crime is defined by an act of the legislature of 1919, entitled “An Act Defining Criminal Syndicalism and Sabotage, proscribing certain acts and methods in connection therewith, and in pursuance thereof, and providing penalties and punishments therefor.” (Stats. 1919, p. 281) The defendants were jointly tried for the offense so charged and all, with the exception of the defendant Williams, who was acquitted, were found guilty by the jury. A separate verdict was found and returned as to each of the defendants. A motion for a new trial was made in behalf of each of the convicted defendants and denied and each appeals from the judgment of conviction and the order denying him a new trial.

Subdivision 4 of section 2 of the Criminal Syndicalism Act constitutes the basis of the charge alleged in the information. That section provides:

The points made by the appellants on this appeal are numerous, the general import thereof being that the evidence does not support the verdicts, that irrelevant and incompetent testimony was…