NEGRO CUMMUNIST
SENTENCE REVERSED GEORGIA STATUTE HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Ffesi Association —By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, April 26. (Received April 27, at 1.5 p.m.) The Supreme Court, by 5 votes to 4, Mr Justice Roberts joining the so-called Liberals, reversed the conviction of Angelq Herndon, a negro Communist organiser, who was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment in Georgia under a civil war statute forbidding, advocacy of forceful resistance in the State. The case aroused widespread interest, the conviction resting on the theory that members of the Communist Party indicated revolutionary opposition to the State. The majority held that the statute was unconstitutional because of its vagueness.
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Evening Star, Issue 22633, 27 April 1937, Page 10
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103NEGRO CUMMUNIST Evening Star, Issue 22633, 27 April 1937, Page 10
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