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Screws Vs. United States

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 07, 1945

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  12. Screws v. United
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  13. States - 325 U.S. 91 (1945) U.S. Supreme Court Screws v. United
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  14. States, 325 U.S. 91 (1945) Screws v. United
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  15. it is true that this Act, as construed in United States v. Classic
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  16. clause. The majority have quite consistently construed it in broad general terms. Thus, it was stated in Twining v. New
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  17. In Snyder v. Massachusetts
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  18. The same standard was expressed in Palko v. Connecticut
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  19. and that, if it is so read, it provides no ascertainable standard of guilt. It is pointed out that, in United States v. Cohen
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  20. intent is at times required. Holmes, The Common Law, pp. 66 et seq. But the general rule was stated in Ellis v. United
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  21. Nash v. United
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  22. the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. A confession obtained by too long questioning ( Ashcraft v. Tennessee
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  23. the enforcement of an ordinance requiring a license for the distribution of religious literature ( Murdock v. Pennsylvania
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  24. the denial of the assistance of counsel in certain types of cases ( cf. Powell v. Alabama
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  25. U. S. 45 with Betts v. Brady
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  26. the enforcement of certain types of anti-picketing statutes ( Thornhill v. Alabama
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  27. the enforcement of state price control laws ( Olsen v. Nebraska
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  28. the requirement that public school children salute the flag ( Board of Education v. Barnette
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  29. This Court has consistently favored that interpretation of legislation which supports its constitutionality. Ashwander v. Tennessee
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  30. Labor Board v. Jones
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  31. is concerned, there would seem to be a similar lack of specificity when the privileges and immunities clause ( Madden v. Kentucky
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  32. U. S. 83 ) and the equal protection clause ( Smith v. Texas
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  33. Hill v. Texas
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  34. Spies v. United
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  35. States, 317 U. S. 492 , 317 U. S. 497 . At times, as the Court held in United States v. Murdock
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  36. U. S. 394 , the word denotes an act which is intentional, rather than accidental. And see United States v. Illinois
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  37. Id., p. 290 U. S. 394 . And see Felton v. United
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  38. Potter v. United
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  39. Spurr v. United
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  40. Hargrove v. United
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  41. In that event, something more is required than the doing of the act proscribed by the statute. Cf. United States v. Balint
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  42. An evil motive to accomplish that which the statute condemns becomes a constituent element of the crime. Spurr v. United
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  43. p. 290 U. S. 395 . And that issue must be submitted to the jury under appropriate instructions. United States v. Ragen
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  44. the statute does not define, and hence of which it gives no warning. Page 325 U. S. 102 See United States v. Cohen
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  45. which the accused was unaware. That was pointed out by Mr. Justice Brandeis, speaking for the Court in Omaechevarria v. Idaho
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  46. Id., p. 246 U. S. 348 . A similar ruling was made in Hygrade Provision Co. v. Sherman
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  47. U.S. pp. 266 U. S. 502 -503. In United States v. Ragen
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  48. construing the statute to require proof of bad faith, we avoided the serious question which the rule of United States v. Cohen
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  49. of criminal legislation which has been sustained without any charge or proof of scienter. Shevlin-Carpenter Co. v. Minnesota
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  50. action must be shown. Snowden v. Hughes
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