 | Simon Greenleaf - Evidence (Law) - 1853 - 636 pages
...a conspiracy must be a combination of two or more persons, by some concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish...some purpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means. We use the terms criminal or unlawful, because it is manifest that many... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 736 pages
...conspiracy, there must be a combination of two or more persons, by some concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish...some purpose not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means. 4 Metcalfs R. 1 1 1. But sec 4 Steph. Com. ub. sup. The conspiracy itself... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 674 pages
...a conspiracy must be a combination of two or more persons, by some concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish...some purpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means. We use the terms criminal or unlawful, because it is manifest that many... | |
 | Florida. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 808 pages
...another. More generally, a combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish...some purpose not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means. The word describes an indictable offence. Burr. Law Dictionary, title "Conspiracy."... | |
 | William Wirt Virgin - Civil procedure - 1874 - 672 pages
...it.'21 (i) A conspiracy is a combination of two or more persons, by concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish...some purpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means.-3 (}) When the act to be accomplished is in itself criminal or unlawful,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tracy - 1875 - 96 pages
...described in general terms I as a combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish...some purpose not in itself criminal or unlawful by criminal or unlawful means. It is not essential that the act intended to be done should be punishable... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 860 pages
...conspiracy is defined to be a combination of two or more persons, by some concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish...some purpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means. Per SHAW, CJ, in Comm. \. Hunt, 4 Mete. 1SJ3. There are some qualifications... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1880 - 820 pages
...of two or more persons, by some concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful piirpose, or to accomplish some purpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means. We use the terms criminal or unlawful, because it is manifest that many... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1883 - 870 pages
...breathe). In Criminal Law. A combination of two or more persons by some concerted action to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish...some purpose, not in itself criminal or unlawful, by criminal or unlawful means; 2 Mass. 837, 538; 4 Mete. Mass. Ill ; 4 Wend. 229; 15 NH 896 ; 5 H. & .7.... | |
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Without attempting to review and reconcile all the cases, we are of opinion that, as a general description, though perhaps not a precise and accurate definition, a conspiracy must be a combination of two or more persons by some concerted action, to accomplish... 
