People v. Massie

John G. Massie was indicted, jointly with Cyrus N. Noble, Herbert Todd and Harry Springgate, for obtaining $140 of Anna Voellinger by the confidence game, was tried separately, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary, and has sued out a writ of error, contending that the evidence does not justify the conviction and that the court erred in the admission and rejection of evidence and in instructing the jury.

The plaintiff in error at the time of the occurrences resulting in his indictment was a physician, forty-two years old, practicing his profession in Belleville, where he had resided for…