Wong Tai v. United States

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• indictment for conspiracy to violate Opium Act sustained where charge provided reasonable particularity as to time, place, identity of co-conspirators, object crime, and overt acts
• indictment for conspiracy need not be pleaded with the same particularity as would be required of an indictment for substantive offense so long as defendant is adequately advised of what charges he must meet
• “[I]t is not necessary to allege with technical precision all the elements essential to the commission of the offense which is the object of the conspiracy.”
• valid indictment “shall advise the defendant of the nature and cause of the accusation in order that he may meet it and prepare for trial, and after judgment, be able to plead the record and judgment in bar of a further prosecution for the same offense”
• Docket No. 55, Gov’t Atty. Aff. ¶ 24

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