People v. Goff

The plaintiff in error was indicted by the Grand Jury of Clay county, Illinois, for an assault with a deadly weapon upon the person of Frances B. McKinney with intent to commit a bodily injury and was convicted in the Circuit Court and sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs, to reverse which judgment this writ of error is prosecuted.

One of the errors assigned by the plaintiff in error, hereinafter called plaintiff, is that the court erred in rendering judgment upon the verdict because no plea was ever made by the plaintiff or entered in the record. An examination of this record discloses…