118 Iowa 1 | Iowa | 1902
The facts, on which the indictment was found, and which the evidence on the trial tended to prove, may be briefly stated as follows: Appellant was the patentee of a conical tin clothes washer or clothes pounder, and was engaged with the other defendants in Washington county in selling agency rights therefor. The method of
It was a legitimate question on the trial whether defendant conspired to commit the crime charged, and whether, as tending to show such conspiracy, he or his associates afterwards made representations which he or they knew to.be false, with the intent of procuring signatures to instruments by the persons named in the indictment. But these questions were for the determination of the jury, and there is not such a want of evidence as to justify us in setting aside a conviction based on their verdict of guilty. — Affirmed.