LOWE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
— the hobgoblin1 —
Over a hundred years ago, Stephen's General View of Criminal Law pointed out that the law of conspiracy is the most complete illustration of the fiction consisting of treating as a crime, not the very acts which are intended to be permeated, but certain ways of doing them. Fitz. St. 62. Because the gist of the offense of conspiracy is the
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