Court Opinion

ID: 9640132
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:58:08.969147+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:27.079276
License: Public Domain

HOLMES, Circuit Judge
(dissenting in part).
The jury found that Gould & Company and Rieebaum were parties to a single, continuing conspiracy, as charged in the indictment. The evidence is sufficient to sustain this finding; and, since unity of purpose was established by the *634evidence and the verdict of the jury, the 'various means employed in attaining this purpose did not convert a single conspiracy into a series of separate conspiracies. The commission of the offense charged in the first count of the indictment was an act in furtherance of this conspiracy, and is considered in law the act of all of the conspirators.
As members of the conspiracy, Gould & Company and Ricebaum were guilty of the offense committed in furtherance thereof. Ricebaum is the man who said, “You don’t need to worry about these stocks; the people are going to be wiped out, and you don’t have to get excited.” Also, he said, “Don’t worry about that stock; the boys are going to pull the string, and the stock will go down like the rest of the. market.”
I think the judgment should be affirmed as to all of the defendants. Therefore, I concur in the result in so far as the judgment of the district court is affirmed, but I dissent from the judgment of reversal as to Gould & Company and Ricebaum.