Legal Opinion

State v. Potter

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 28, 1870PublishedCited by 37 opinions

Appeal from General Term,, Seventh District (Olinton County). The defendant and another were indicted, by a grand jury of Clinton county, for the crime of conspiracy, and, upon trial therefor, in the District Court, were convicted. Upon the appeal of defendant to the General Term the judgment of the District Court was affirmed. He now appeals to this court.

1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.

i npnnvir. acyVindict11’ ment. The indictment charges the offense in the following words: “ The said J. B. Franklin and D. S. Potter, late of, etc., on, etc., at, etc., unlawfully an(l feloniously, did conspire and confederate together, with the fraudulent intent to do an illegal act, injurious to the administration of public justice, to wit: did conspire and confederate together, with the said intent, to defeat the enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law, so called, in said county, wrongfully, to wit: with money and other unlawful means, to prevent the grand jury of said county at, etc.,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. JonesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1862

3Cited by37 opinions

  1. State v. OrmistonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1885
  2. State v. GibsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1919
  3. State v. WeemsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1895
  4. State v. GrantSupreme Court of Iowa · 1892
  5. Roberts v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1938

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