People v. Bailey

— Defendants appeal from a judgment of conviction of the crime of conspiracy to commit the crime of grand larceny, and from an order denying them and each of them a new trial.

Briefly, the facts appear to be that the defendants with two others agreed among themselves that they would go to a certain place where a considerable quantity of whisky was stored and by pretending to the owner of the premises that they were officers engaged in the enforcement of the National Prohibition Act, and by virtue of a forged search-warrant take the whisky and convert it to their own use.

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