Clune v. United States

Citations

• 159 U.S. 590
• 16 S. Ct. 125
• 40 L. Ed. 269
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2326

Syllabus

<p>It is doubtful whether the record and bill of exceptions present for review the matters complained of in the brief of counsel.</p> <p>On the trial of parties charged with the criminal offence of conspiring to stop the mails, contemporary telegrams from different parts of the’ country, announcing the' stoppage pf mail trains, are admissible in evidence against the defendants if identified and brought home to them.</p> <p>So, too, the acts and declarations of persons not parties to the record are in such case admissible against the defendants if it appears that they were made in carrying the conspiracy into effect, or attempting to carry it into effect.</p> <p>Instructions of the court below, to become part of the record, must be incorporated in a bill of exceptions, and be authenticated, by the signature of the trial judge.</p> <p>It is within the power of Congress to provide, for persons convicted of conspiracy to do a criminal act, a punishment more severe than that provided for persons committing- such act.</p>