Campbell v. State

Jenkins, Chief Justice.

1. “After the fact of conspiracy shall be proved, the declarations by any one of the conspirators during the pendency of the criminal project shall be admissible against all.” Code, § 38-306.(a) In the instant ease, the evidence shows that the defendant and four other convicts overpowered the guards at a public-work camp and took their guns, and that while the defendant was absent the other escaping convicts posted a lookout and held the guards prisoner until the defendant returned some ten to fifteen minutes later with an automobile and all of them got into it and…