People ex rel. Bell v. Zane
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a petition in this court by the relator, for a mandamus, against Charles S. Zane, judge of the circuit court of Sangamon county, to require him to take cognizance of an indictment preferred by the grand jury of Macoupin county against one Lewis Biggs, in which cause the venue had been changed, and the cause sent to the circuit court of Sangamon county, and to require such judge to try the cause. The material facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Scott
At the January term, 1883, of this court, leave was given to file a petition, in the name of the People of the State, for a mandamus, to require the Hon. Charles S. Zane, judge of the circuit court of Sangamon county, to take jurisdiction of the case of the People against Lewis Biggs, being an indictment for murder, and to proceed to try the cause so soon as the same could be done with justice to the parties concerned. Accordingly such a petition was filed, in which were set forth all the facts on which the judgment of the court is invoked.
No question is made as to the jurisdiction of this…
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