Reigan v. People

Plaintiffs in error were named defendants in an information filed before a justice of the peace in which it was charged that they did “unlawfully conspire together and co-operate to commit á crime and misdemeanor, to-wit: the crime and misdemeanor of.unlawfully trapping and killing beaver, and the unlawful possession of the hides of beaver, and to become accessories before the fact of such crimes, contrary to the form of the statute. * * *”

Trial before the justice of the peace resulted in conviction. Upon appeal to the county court of Garfield county defendants were again convicted and they…