which persistently and continuously urged, incited, and exhorted the members of the Nationalist Party to arm themselves in order to bring about the political independence of Puerto Rico from the United States by force and violence and by an armed revolution against the United States.
In the third count it was alleged that it was a part of said conspiracy that the defendants, through and by means of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, would open and cause to be opened recruiting stations for the recruiting and enlistment of soldiers in Puerto Rico to engage in armed hostility against the United States, and sets forth several overt acts by which one or more of the several defendants assisted in registering, enlisting, and recruiting members of the Nationalist Party andother men as soldiers to be known as the Liberating Army, for the purpose of engaging Puerto Rico in armed hostility against the United States, and sets forth certain overt acts in the carrying out of said conspiracy.
Upon trial before a jury all of the said defendants were convicted. The defendants Albizu, Corretjer, Luis F. Velazquez, Julio H. Velazquez and Juan Gallardo Santiago were convicted on all three counts; the defendants Clemente Soto Velez and Erasmo Velazquez were convicted under the first and second count; and the defendant Pablo Rosado Ortiz was convicted under the first and third counts. Each defendant was thereupon sentenced.
Each of the defendants appealed from the judgment of the District Court and assigned eighty-six errors, many of which are clearly without merit. The ones