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

Frohwerk v. United States, 249 U.S. 204 (1919), 1919-03-10

- Address: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/249/204
- Kind: court record
- Last checked: 2026-09-26
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [United States convicts newspaper editor Jacob Frohwerk under the Espionage Act, June 1918](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1918-us-espionage-act-conviction-of-editor-frohwerk)
- [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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/937)
- [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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/938)
- [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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/939)
- [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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/940)
- [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.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/941)

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