People v. Wright

Josh Wright, Sam Bentley and Herman Bentley, plaintiffs in error, were convicted in the circuit court of Gallatin county under an indictment charging that they “did feloniously,- fraudulently and maliciously cut a leaf out of deed record No. 36 in the office of the circuit cleric and ex-officio recorder of Gallatin county, Illinois, which leaf so cut out contained pages numbers 519 and 520, and upon said page No. 519 was a record of a certain deed whgrein Thomas M. Wright conveys certain real estate therein described to Laura Wright, the property of the said Laura Wright, with the intent then…