State v. Crowley
Wisconsin Supreme Court
REPORTED from the Circuit Court for Monroe County. The defendants were tried and convicted upon an information charging them with a criminal conspiracy.
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REPORTED from the Circuit Court for Monroe County. The defendants were tried and convicted upon an information charging them with a criminal conspiracy. The circuit court suspended judgment, and reported the case to'this court pursuant to the statute (R. S., ch. 180, sec. 8), for the determination of the following questions of law: 1. Does the first count of the information on which the defendants were tried, charge a criminal offense? 2. Does the evidence in the case support the charge of conspiracy as contained in said first count? It is charged in said first count of the information, that,…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
I. It is maintained by the learned counsel for the defendants, that the information is fatally defective in that it fails to show the means which the defendants conspired to employ for the purpose of defrauding Burke of his money. Their position is, that the false pretenses and devices which the defendants conspired to use to that end, should be specifically set out in the information.
"Were this an information for obtaining the money of Burke by false pretenses, the position would be well taken. For we take it to be well settled, that in such an information the false pretenses resorted to by…
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