West v. People

The information filed against plaintiffs in error contained four counts. A motion to quash was overruled. At the conclusion of the testimony the court withdrew from the consideration of the jury the first three counts, and submitted the case to them on the fourth count, which, omitting the formal parts, charged that defendants “did unlawfully, maliciously and feloniously agree, conspire, confederate and co-operate with each other to commit a felony, which felony consisted in and was that of feloniously, fraudulently, designedly and knowingly attempting to obtain from U. G. Davis, ten thousand…