Legal Opinion

People v. . Flack

New York Court of Appeals

Decided January 13, 1891PublishedCited by 114 opinions

Appeal by defendants, James A. Flack and William L. Flack, from a judgment of the general term of the supreme court, affirming a judgment entered upon a conviction of the crime of conspiracy rendered against them on the verdict of a jury in the court of oyer and terminer of Hew York city and county, on March 31, 1890. The indictment, facts, and points of counsel are very fully given in the report of the case at general term, 8 N~. JT. Criminal Reports, 43.

1Opinion of the Court

Andrews, S.

This is an appeal by James A. Flack and William L. Flack from a conviction of the crime of conspiracy. The indictment contains sixteen counts, which may be divided into two classes. The first class charge the defendants, together with three other persons, with falsely instituting and maintaining an action for divorce in the name of Mary E. Flack, the wife of James A. Flack, against her husband, without her knowledge or consent. The second class charge the defendants with deception and imposition upon the court, and the procuring of a judgment of divoice in the said action by…

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