Orr v. People

The plaintiffs in error were jointly indicted for conspiracy to obtain money, etc., by false pretenses, from one John M. Gray, and him to cheat and defraud; and upon trial by a jury were found guilty as charged, and the plaintiff Saddler was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary, and the plaintiff Orr to two years in the penitentiary. From ‘such judgment this writ of error is prosecuted:

Neither the state’s attorney nor any one else on the part of the people follows the case into this court, and we are compelled to examine, unaided, a voluminous record to determine the validity, or…