Lamb v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. On the second day of November, 1878, John Lamb and George Freeman were indicted in the Criminal Court of Cook county for the murder of Albert Race, a police officer of Chicago. At the March term, 1879, of that court Lamb, alone was put upon his trial. The jury by their verdict found him guilty of the charge, and directed the infliction of the death penalty.
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Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. On the second day of November, 1878, John Lamb and George Freeman were indicted in the Criminal Court of Cook county for the murder of Albert Race, a police officer of Chicago. At the March term, 1879, of that court Lamb, alone was put upon his trial. The jury by their verdict found him guilty of the charge, and directed the infliction of the death penalty. A motion for a new trial having been made and overruled, final sentence and judgment were pronounced by the court in pursuance of the verdict.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mulkey
It appears from the record in this case, that on the evening of the fourth of October, 1878, the store of E. S. Jaffray & Co., situate on Fifth avenue, between Madison and Washington streets, Chicago, was broken and entered by burglars, and that they stole and removed therefrom a considerable quantity of merchandise. In pursuance of an arrangement between some, or all the parties, this merchandise was taken about ten o’clock of the same night, in an express wagon procured for that purpose, to a building on State street, kept as a paAvnshop, by one Friedberg and Avife. On the arrival of the…
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