People v. Sweeney
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Separate appeals by the defendants, Dennis Sweeney and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 9 th day of May, 1913, convicting the defendants of the crime of conspiracy.
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Separate appeals by the defendants, Dennis Sweeney and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 9 th day of May, 1913, convicting the defendants of the crime of conspiracy. Defendants also appeal from an order entered in said clerk’s office as of the lYth day of April, 1913, denying their motion to inspect the minutes of the grand jury, and also from an order entered as of the same day, denying their motion to dismiss the indictment, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the…
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
The four appellants, who were at the times mentioned in the indictment inspectors in the police department of the city of New York, were jointly indicted and tried for the crime of having conspired to prevent and obstruct the due administration of justice. (Penal Law, § 580, subd. 6.) The particular purpose of the conspiracy, as charged in the indictment, was the suppression of testimony which if produced would'have tended to prove that the appellants and other members of the police force had been guilty of accepting bribes to influence their official action.
The city of New York is…
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