State v. Elkins

This is an appeal by the State from a judgment of the circuit court for Multnomah County sustaining demurrers to the indictments returned against defendants in nine separate cases which were consolidated on appeal. All of the indictments charged the defendants with the same crime. The charging part of the indictment reads as follows:

“The said James B. Elkins, H. E. Ferguson, Thomas E. Maloney and Joseph P. McLaughlin, on or about the 23rd day of August, 1955, in the City of Portland, County of Multnomah and the State of Oregon then and there being, did then and there, and in conjunction with…