Is it possible to overturn convictions of conspiracy to commit the crime of disturbing the peace?

Smith may be correct under certain circumstances. In People v. Northum (1940) 41 Cal.App.2d 284, on which he relies, the appellate court reversed convictions of conspiracy to commit the crime of disturbing the peace, which resulted when a large group of members of a particular religious organization went into the residential districts of Hanford and, singly or in groups of two, went door to door preaching their beliefs. (Id. at pp. 285-287, 290.) The court stated: "[I]t is difficult to see how a criminal conspiracy can be said to have existed when the carrying out of the agreed purpose has involved the

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