Haupt v. United States (330 U.S. 631)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 31, 1947 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 330 U.S. 631 · 67 S. Ct. 874
- Decided
- March 31, 1947
- Term
- October Term 1946
- Vote
- 8–1
- Majority author
- Justice Jackson (R.H.)
- Issue area
- Criminal Procedure
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Mr. Justice Jackson delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner, Hans Max Haupt was indicted for treason, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and to pay a fine of $10,000. From this judgment of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois he appealed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which by a divided court affirmed. 152 F. 2d 771. A previous conviction of the same offense predicated on the same acts had been reversed. United States v. Haupt, 136 F. 2d 661. Petitioner is the father of Herbert Haupt, one of the eight saboteurs convicted by a military tribunal. See Ex parte Quirin, 317 U. S. 1. Sheltering his son, assisting him in getting a job, and in acquiring an automobile, all alleged to be with knowledge of the son’s mission, involved defendant in the treason charge. The background facts are not in dispute. The defendant is a naturalized citizen, born in Germany. He came to this country in 1923 and lived in or near Chicago. In 1939 the son, Herbert, who had also been born in Germany, worked for the Simpson Optical Company in Chicago which manufactured lenses for instruments, including parts for the Norden bomb sight. In the spring of 1941 Herbert went to Mexico and, with the aid of the German Consul, from there to Japan and thence to Germany where he entered the employ of the German Government and was trained in…
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