Hix v. People

The defendant was indicted at the November term, 1894, of the circuit court of Iroquois county, for the crime of larceny, the indictment charging him with feloniously stealing, taking and carrying away one fat hog of the value of $10 and one fat hog of the value of $12, the goods and chattels of Thorn Downey. On trial the jury found the defendant guilty, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of one-year. Sentence having been pronounced against him in accordance with the verdict, he now brings the record to-this court by writ of error.

The first point raised…