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CANTWELL v. CONNECTICUT

No. 632.

310 U.S. 296 (1940)

60 S.Ct. 900

84 L.Ed. 1213

CANTWELL ET AL. v. CONNECTICUT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 20, 1940.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hayden C. Covington, with whom Mr. Joseph F. Rutherford was on the brief, for appellants and petitioner.

Messrs. Francis A. Pallotti, Attorney General, and Mr. Edwin S. Pickett, with whom Messrs. William L. Hadden, Richard F. Corkey, Assistant Attorney General, and Luke H. Stapleton were on the brief, for the State of Connecticut, appellee and respondent.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Newton Cantwell and his two sons, Jesse and Russell, members of a group known as Jehovah's Witnesses, and claiming to be ordained ministers, were arrested in New Haven, Connecticut, and each was charged by information in five counts, with statutory and common law offenses. After trial in the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County each of them was convicted on the...

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