State v. Gannon
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Information in four counts charging conspiracy to defraud, and obtaining money by false pretenses, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Shumway, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty on the first -count only, and appeal by the defendant Gannon for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Information in four counts charging conspiracy to defraud, and obtaining money by false pretenses, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Shumway, J.; verdict and judgment of guilty on the first -count only, and appeal by the defendant Gannon for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. The first count charges the defendants with a conspiracy to cheat and defraud John Griffin of $1,700 of his money, stating the devices by which the intended cheat was to be accomplished, with elaborate details, alleges how these devices were in fact…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The defendant assigns as reasons of appeal some twenty exceptions to the charge of the court as given, and to refusals to charge as requested. Wo one of these exceptions furnishes ground for a new trial. The requests to charge were substantially complied with, so far as material and correct. The numerous isolated passages quoted from the charge, read in connection with the context, and other portions of the charge, are not open to the objections made. It is sufficient to refer, specially, to a few of these objections.
One objection is, that the first count charges a conspiracy to commit the…
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