State v. Frantz

Pennewill, C. J.,

charging the jury:

The indictment in this case is for conspiracy. It is charged therein that one of the defendants, Henry B. Hook, was, in the month of December last and in this county, negotiating with the board of health of this city, and with the council or the mayor and council of Wilmington with a view to procuring the recommendation by the said board of health of the adoption of a plan for the construction or acquisition of a garbage disposal plant of the type or kind known as the Davis plant; and also with the view of procuring the approval of said council of such…