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Any person who individually or in combination with others, whether it be at a convention, meeting, or assembly, in a speech over the radio, through a book, pamphlet, poster, handbill, phonograph record, or any other publication, or otherwise directly or indirectly incites or urges one or more other persons to the commission of an act which constitutes a felony under Commonwealth laws shall, after the fact of the inciting or urging has been proved, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum penalty of four (4) years imprisonment in jail, or by a maximum fine of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by both penalties. Any person may be prosecuted for violating the aforesaid provisions, without requirement that anyone should have committed or attempted to commit the offense to which he may have been incited or urged. Should the offense be committed which has been incited or urged the pertinent provisions of the Penal Code shall govern. The Court of First Instance is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction to take cognizance of the violations to this section, and the trials thereof shall be heard by the court without a jury. History —June 10, 1948, No. 52, p. 168, § 1.