Commonwealth v. Kingsbury
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The indictment charged that Fisher Kingsbury, Jonathan Kings-bury, Daniel Kingsbury, and Fisher Kingsbury, jun. being evil-disposed persons, and contriving and intending to injure one Th.omas Pons, and acquire property from him under false pretences, without paying for the same, at, &c., on, &c., with force and arms, did fraudulently and unlawfully conspire, combine, confederate and agree together to obtain the possession of ten sets of carriage har nesses of the said Pons,…
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The indictment charged that Fisher Kingsbury, Jonathan Kings-bury, Daniel Kingsbury, and Fisher Kingsbury, jun. being evil-disposed persons, and contriving and intending to injure one Th.omas Pons, and acquire property from him under false pretences, without paying for the same, at, &c., on, &c., with force and arms, did fraudulently and unlawfully conspire, combine, confederate and agree together to obtain the possession of ten sets of carriage har nesses of the said Pons, of the value of five hundred dollars, in the shop of the said Pons then and there being, under color of authority from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was afterwards delivered to the following effect by
* Parsons, C. J.
The defendants are charged with conspiring to get possession of the chattels of Thomas Pom, then in his shop, to remove them from his shop, and to conceal them from him, under color of authority from the owner to sell them, and that they in fact carried their conspiracy into execution.
The fraudulently obtaining possession of the chattels of Pom, carrying them away, and secreting them, is unquestionably a felony; and the attorney-general very properly admits it. But he has argued that the conspiracy was…
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