People ex rel. Meeker v. Baker
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Charles M. Meeker, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18tli day of June, 1910, dismissing a writ of habeas corpus and remanding the relator to custody.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
The relator was indicted by the grand jury of Dallam county, Tex., at the March, 1910, term of the District Court of said county, for a common-law conspiracy claimed .to have been entered into by him on or about January 26, 1910, with W. S. Richey and II. L. Perkins to defraud George N. Mattingly out of the sum of $2,400. Briefly stated, the scheme into which these three parties were charged to have entered was, that Perkins was to locate himself in London, England, and advertise himself .as president and general manager of the London Commercial Banking Company, S. A., and…
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