Legal Opinion

State v. Stevens

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 23, 1870PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Appeal from Scott District Court. Indictment for conspiracy under section 4408 of the Revision. Trial, and verdict of guilty rendered. Defendants filed separate motions for a new trial, which were overruled, and they were sentenced to pay a fine of $100 each, and be imprisoned in the county jail for sixty days, and pay the costs of prosecution. Defendants appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.

i. chimotai, racy: uSíotí" mentI. The first questions presented for our consideration are as to the sufficiency of the indictment, There are three counts. In thó first count it is charged that the defendants, “ on the 23d day of March, A. D. 1867, in Scott county, Iowa, did conspire and confederate together with the fraudulent intent wrongfully to injure the character and person of one Rosanna Stevens, then and there being, and then and there the wife of the defendant, Benjamin Stevens, by then and there procuring a divorce from the bonds of matrimony then and there subsisting between said…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. PotterSupreme Court of Iowa · 1870
  2. State v. JonesSupreme Court of Iowa · 1862

3Cited by11 opinions

  1. State v. LoserSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
  2. State v. ClemensonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1904
  3. Cole v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1876
  4. State v. EnoSupreme Court of Iowa · 1906
  5. State v. HardinSupreme Court of Iowa · 1909

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