Shannon v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Error to the Quarter Sessions of Venango county. The plaintiffs in error were indicted below for a conspiracy to commit adultery. The indictment contained ten counts, on four of which a nolle prosequi was entered.
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• Error to the Quarter Sessions of Venango county. The plaintiffs in error were indicted below for a conspiracy to commit adultery. The indictment contained ten counts, on four of which a nolle prosequi was entered. It was charged in the first count, that Shannon and Edna Nugent, wife of James Nugent, together with other evil disposed persons, whose names to the inquest are as yet unknown, on the 23d day of February, 1850, wickedly, &c. did conspire, &c., and agree together to commit adultery, to the great damage of the said James Nugent, &c. In the second count it was charged that they did…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, Oct. 9th, by
Gibson, C. J.
— Of the impolicy of holding a tight rein over the doctrine of conspiracy, I expressed my opinion in Mifflin v. The Commonwealth, 5 W. Ser. 464, without intending to intimate that it should be suffered to run wild. It ought, at least, to appear that not only the end to be accomplished, but the motive for it, was wicked. In every count of this indictment the combination is laid to be an agreement to commit adultery, without reference to time, place, or circumstance. The sum of the* charge is joint consent, which is an ingredient…
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