Case ID: ohio-st_38/html/0585-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Longworth, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jackson v. State.
    Motion for leave to file petition in error to the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga county.
    The questions for decision in this case are precisely the same as those in the preceding case of Tarbox, with whom these plaintiffs were jointly indicted, except that in this case the court below allowed evidence to go to the jury tending to show that the accused had, shortly after the commission of the offense charged, been jointly engaged in a conspiracy to commit crimes of a similar character in Pittsburg.
    
      W. A. Babcock and S. M. Eddy, for plaintiff in error.
    
      O. M. Stone, prosecuting attorney, for defendant in error.
   Longworth, J.

The same reasons which render evidence of acts committed shortly prior to the time of the offense charged competent for the purpose of showing a conspiracy, apply with equal force to acts committed shortly thereafter. The test is that the acts should appear to be so connected as to authorize the inference that they were all part and parcel of a single conspiracy to commit several crimes.

Motion overruled.