It was expressly decided in England long ago, that a treasonable communication, “though intercepted, is an overt act of treason”; and this early principle was repeated by the Court of King’s Bench, speaking by the voice of Lord Mansfield, in the case of Dr.
Sumner references a historical legal principle that an intercepted treasonous communication constitutes an overt act of treason.
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