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RUTHENBERG v. UNITED STATES

No. 656.

245 U.S. 480 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 168

62 L.Ed. 414

RUTHENBERG ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 14, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph W. Sharts, with whom Mr. Morris H. Wolf was on the brief, for plaintiffs in error.

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Robert Szold was on the brief, for the United States. See ante, 368.

Mr. Hannis Taylor and Mr. Joseph E. Black, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curice.

Mr. Walter Nelles, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

Schue was indicted for having failed to register as required by the Act of Congress of May 18, 1917, c. 15, 40 Stat. 76, known as the Selective Draft Law, and in the same indictment it was charged that Ruthenberg, Wagenknecht and Baker, the plaintiffs in error, "did aid, abet, counsel, command and induce" Schue in failing to register "and procure him to commit the offense involved in his so doing." Schue...

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