McLaughlin v. State

THOMAS, Justice.

We are confronted in this case with a novel question in Wyoming. What is the criminal responsibility of a person who is employed in an enterprise that serves as the matrix of a criminal conspiracy but whose activities consist of acts that would be lawful in the absence of the conspiracy and

whose commitment to the conspiracy must be inferred from circumstantial evidence? The question is posed by an attack upon the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s verdict of guilty.

David McLaughlin was charged by information with one count of conspiracy to obtain money by false…