State v. Smith

This is an indictment which, charges that the defendants conspired together between certain dates to steal the property of the National & Providence Worsted Mills, a Rhode Island corporation. In the superior court, the defendants Anderton and Goldberg filed demurrers and motions to quash the indictment on the ground that the law under which said indictment was drawn is unconstitutional.

The trial justice, upon motion of the defendants and pursuant to the provision of section 1, chapter 348, of the general laws 1923, certified the question thus raised to be determined by this court. This…