STATE v. MUSSER

No. 6816.

118 Utah 537 (1950)

223 P.2d 193

STATE v. MUSSER et al.

Supreme Court of Utah.

Decided October 20, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude T. Barnes, J.H. McKnight, Knox Patterson, Ray S. McCarty, Edwin D. Hatch, Salt Lake City, for appellants.

Grover A. Giles, Attorney General, with Calvin L. Rampton and W.S. Wagstaff, Assistant Attorneys General, Brigham E. Roberts, District Attorney, and H.D. Lowry, Deputy District Attorney, Salt Lake City, for respondent.


WADE, Justice.

Section 103 — 11 — 1, U.C.A. 1943, denounces as a criminal offense for two or more persons to conspire

"(5) To commit any act injurious * * * to public morals * * *"

Our problem here is to determine whether the broad sweep of that general language, in view of the whole context of that statute and our other statutory and common laws and the history and background of the enactment...

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