Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 5 | Stokes Case Will Go to Jury at Noon

I STOKES CASE WILL GO TO 10 JURY AI AT NOON Arguments Are Heard forand for forand forand I and Against Woman Facing Facing Facing Fa Fa- Fa- Fa cing Sedition Charge By A Associated pr Press s I KA KANSAS KAsAS SAS CITY Mo Io May ta 22 Presen Presen Presentation tation of oC evidence In tho tine case I of Mn Hose Pastor Stokes on trial In iii the fe j cc- cc I cral crab court here chat charged ed with violation of tho tiro espionage e act was completed I afternoon and ar argument he begun un Final summing up b by both sides will I tal take lake 6 tomorrow after aCter which Judge Arba S S. S San Van an will charge o th the Jur Jury Court officials official expected the tho case to RO to to the jur Jury about noon Each side sido wa was allotted one hour for argument this afternoon Elmer B B. Sil vets ers assistant United States district attorney attorney at- at torney spoke for the government and s I Seymour Stedman of Chicago for tho the de- de i Mr Slivers Silvers asserted that tho the question at Issue was th the th Intent 0 or motive behind I the signed communication of oC Mrs Mra Stokes which appeared In the Kansas City Star and In which she sho expressed opposition to 1 the Inc government He stressed the tIre wordIng wording word- word Ing InS of oC the statute that thal prohibits an at tempt to insubordination or sow seeds of oC disloyalty and pictured tho the de de- de fondant as having sought every ery opportunity to spread disloyal propaganda In replying Mr Ir Stedman asserted the lIbert liberty of oC speech and arid the length to which a citizen may go 0 In criticizing the government gov sov- in wartime was the principal Issue Involved He lie declared the question was one of or limitation that can bo be placed upon the criticism of oC e even en n the lie highest personage the personage the president and president and said Mrs Stokes's chief concern was that the war might not hot accomplish the purposes for Cor which lea America entered It He argued that tho the government must prove motive on each count of oC the indictment In in- in and that Mrs Irs Stokes had wilfully wil wl- fully sought to create creato mutiny and In-I In in insubordination insubordination in- in subordination