The People v. Downen

Plaintiff in error, Clarence Downen, was convicted in the circuit court of Randolph county, Illinois, of the crime of assault with intent to kill, and sentenced to the penitentiary. He claims the evidence does not show him to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and that error was committed in admitting certain improper evidence and in refusing certain instructions offered by plaintiff in error.

About 11 :oo o’clock P. M. on April 11, 1939, the complaining witness, Elmo Morrison, a deputy sheriff, received information which caused him to make a search for Downen. Morrison drove to the residence…