Flanagan v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Grundy county; the Hon. S. C. Stough, Judge, presiding. This is an indictment, found by the grand jury at the March term, 1904, of the circuit court of Grundy county against the plaintiffs in error, Frank Flanagan and Thomas Scully, for burglary and larceny. The jury rendered a verdict, finding the defendants guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Grundy county; the Hon. S. C. Stough, Judge, presiding. This is an indictment, found by the grand jury at the March term, 1904, of the circuit court of Grundy county against the plaintiffs in error, Frank Flanagan and Thomas Scully, for burglary and larceny. The jury rendered a verdict, finding the defendants guilty in manner and form as charged in the indictment. Motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were made and overruled; and judgment was entered upon the verdict, adjudging the two defendants guilty of the crime of burglary, and sentencing…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The errors relied upon for the reversal of this judgment of conviction are, 1, that the court admitted on the trial improper evidence in behalf of the People and excluded proper evidence in behalf of plaintiffs in error; 2, that the State’s attorney was permitted to ask plaintiffs in error over their objections improper and prejudicial questions; 3, that the court erred in refusing to give instructions numbered 40 to 45, both inclusive, at the close of the People’s case, which directed the jury to find the defendants and each of them not guilty, and again erred in refusing to give said…
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