their oaths, they were able to bring in a verdict in accordance with the law and the evidence and denied the motion. No abuse of discretion appears in the denial of this motion.
As to the defendants' assignments of error that incompetent and irrelevant evidence was admitted which failed to justify, support, or maintain the verdict as to any of the defendants, and had a tendency to prejudice the jury against the defendants, *142 the charge is that the several defendants conspired together and by speeches and by articles printed in the several newspapers and by circulars, sought to induce the members of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico and others to bring about the political independence of Puerto Rico from the United States by force and violence andby armed revolution.
Evidence was introduced of speeches made at various places by Albizu, who was the head and leader of the conspiracy, if one existed, which were clearly designed to incite his followers and members of the Nationalist Party to oppose the authority of the United States with force and to an armed revolution against the United States and to resist the authority thereof.
In a speech at Mayaguez in August, 1932, Albizu said "that if the insular police by order of the government should kill any Nationalist, they would kill the Governor"; that at Humacao about two years ago he said he could explode a bomb or fire a shot from a revolver and that it would hit the head of the insular police in San Juan; that