Gallagher v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brent ano, Judge, presiding. At the April term, 1902, of the criminal court of Cook county, the two plaintiffs in error, William J. Gallagher and John O’Donnell, were indicted, with five others, for the crime of conspiracy to do a certain illegal act injurious to the administration of public justice.
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Writ op Error to the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Theodore Brent ano, Judge, presiding. At the April term, 1902, of the criminal court of Cook county, the two plaintiffs in error, William J. Gallagher and John O’Donnell, were indicted, with five others, for the crime of conspiracy to do a certain illegal act injurious to the administration of public justice. The indictment contained five counts. The first count alleged that the two plaintiffs in error, together with P. H. O’Donnell, James T. Brady,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
There are many grounds of reversal assigned by the plaintiffs in error,-—so many, in fact, that it will be impossible within the limits of an opinion to even notice all of them; but we will consider such of them as we consider of sufficient importance, in the order in which they are presented in the brief and argument of counsel for plaintiffs in error.
A motion was made to quash the indictment, which the court overruled, and that ruling is assigned as error. Several reasons are urged for holding the indictment defective, the first being, that the allegations contained therein are too…
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