Court Opinion

ID: 9637654
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:13:57.644421+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:58.782258
License: Public Domain

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I agree that a case was fully made out under the conspiracy charge, and that no-error as to it having been shown, the judgment should be affirmed. I am, however, more than a little in doubt that the allegations the opinion relies on as allegations of overt acts may be in law so- treated, and I think I should say so. I concur in the affirmance because I have no doubt that the overt acts alleged as such were sufficiently proven. It may be that tho letters were not so delivered,as to constitute an offense under the substantive counts, though I believe they wore. It may he that talking into the radios in Nueces county by means of a broadcast from Mexico, as alleged, would not constitute a substantive offense. It is not necessary that it should. An overt act may be in itself entirely legal. It is sufficient if it be an act done in the furtherance of a conspiracy. I think it cannot be doubted that it was overwhelmingly shown that the defendants did, as set out in the overt acts, cause letters to he delivered, and did talk in Nueces county into radios in furtherance of the conspiracy.