Benedict v. People

The defendant was tried and convicted of the infamous crime against nature and sentenced to the penitentiary. To reverse the judgment a number of errors are assigned, only three of which are argued by counsel for plaintiff in error, and they are the only ones that require consideration.

The point is made that the defendant was not furnished, previous to, or at the time of, his arraignment, with a copy of the information and a list of the jurors and of the people’s witnesses, as the statute prescribes. As originally made up, the record does not affirmatively show that this requirement was…