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COMMONWEALTH v. HOOD

334 Mass. 76 (1956)

134 N.E.2d 12

COMMONWEALTH vs. OTIS ARCHER HOOD (and a companion case against the same defendant).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 3, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold H. Salisbury, Assistant Attorney General, (Fred L. True, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with him,) for the Commonwealth.

Gabriel Kantrovitz, for the defendant.

Howard S. Whiteside, by leave of court, submitted a brief as amicus curiae.

Present: QUA, C.J., RONAN, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.

QUA, C.J.

These are two indictments returned in April, 1954, charging the defendant respectively with having contributed money and property having a value in money to the Communist Party, knowing it to be a subversive organization, and with becoming and remaining a member of the Communist Party, knowing it to be a subversive organization. The indictments are grounded upon G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 264, §§ 23 and 19, inserted by St. 1951, c. 805, § 3.

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