Smith v. People

The plaintiff in error and one Charles E. Thomas were indicted by a grand jury called by the district court of Pueblo county on the 14th of January, 1905, for entering into a conspiracy to cause certain parties who were not entitled to vote to be registered in precinct No. 56 in Pueblo county. Plaintiff in error was tried alone and convicted. The court permitted the people, over the objection of plaintiff in error, to introduce evidence as to the acts and declarations of defendant Thomas done and made long after the purpose of the alleged conspiracy was consummated, and not in the presence…