Thurman

Defendant was found guilty of criminal syndicalism under subdivision 4 of section 2 of the Criminal Syndicalism Act of 1919 (Stats. 1919, p. 281), and now appeals from the judgment of conviction. His sole point is that the evidence is insufficient to justify the verdict.

Subdivision 4 of section 2 of the Criminal Syndicalism Act provides that a person is guilty of the crime denounced thereby if he “organizes or assists in organizing, or is or knowingly 'becomes a member of, any organization, society, group or assemblage of persons organized or assembled to advocate, teach or aid and abet criminal syndicalism"; and by section 1 criminal syndicalism is defined as 11 any doctrine or precept advocating, teaching or aiding and abetting the commission of crime, sabotage (which word is hereby defined as meaning willful and malicious physical damage or injury to physical property), or unlawful acts of force and violence or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership or control, or effecting any political change."

The information charges that on May 30, 1921, in the county of Imperial, defendant assisted in organizing and became a member of…