Note 254 — Chapter III · A CONTEMPORARY STATE TRIAL—THE UNITED STATES VS. JACOB ABRAMS ET AL.

Ibid., Holmes, J.: “When words are used exactly a deed is not done with intent to produce a consequence unless that consequence is the aim of the deed—unless the aim to produce it is the proximate motive of the specific act ...” The Sabotage Act punishes defective manufacture of war essentials only if there is intent to interfere with the war or reason to believe that the act will interfere with it. Act of April 20, 1918.