Frohwerk v. United States, 249 U.S. 204 (1919)

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https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/249/204

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2026-09-26

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• United States convicts newspaper editor Jacob Frohwerk under the Espionage Act, June 1918
• Claim 937: The Supreme Court of the United States heard Frohwerk's appeal on January 27, 1919, and affirmed his conviction on March 10, 1919.
• Claim 938: Frohwerk's trial on the Espionage Act indictment began on June 26, 1918, after the District Court overruled his demurrer to the indictment.
• Claim 939: The indictment alleged a conspiracy between Frohwerk and Carl Gleeser, publishers of the Missouri Staats Zeitung, to violate the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917.
• Claim 940: Additional counts of the indictment charged that the newspaper's articles amounted to attempts to cause disloyalty, mutiny and refusal of duty in the armed forces.
• Claim 941: A jury convicted Frohwerk on all but one count, and the trial court sentenced him to a fine and ten years' imprisonment on each remaining count.

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