Legal Opinion

State v. Nugent

Supreme Court of New Jersey

Decided November 9, 1908PublishedCited by 7 opinions

On application for a writ of certiorari to bring into this court an indictment found by the Essex county grand jury against several defendants for conspiracy.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Reed, J.

The indictment in question charges that the defendants did unlawfully and wickedly combine, unite, confederate. conspire and bind themselves by agreement to unlawfully and corruptly procure one W. B. to vote at a specified general election in the sixth election district of the second ward of the city of Newark, well knowing the said W. B. not to be a qualified voter in said election district at that election.

It is insisted that regardless of other objections to the indictment, the words employed are not apt to charge a crim*85inal conspiracy. The…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Dealy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  2. Moschell v. StateSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1891

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Hyde v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
  2. People v. GeorgeCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1925
  3. State v. OatsNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1954
  4. United States v. AczelDistrict Court, D. Indiana · 1915
  5. People v. BeckCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1923

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