Coyne v. People

Plaintiff in error was indicted by the grand jury of Bock Island county at the September term, 1886, of the circuit court of that county for endeavoring to incite and procure one Margaretha Fluegel to commit perjury. The case was tried at the following January term, and the plaintiff in error was found guilty by the jury. His term of imprisonment was fixed at two- and a half years in the penitentiary and sentence was passed against him in accordance with the verdict.

On the 26th day of June, 1885, George H. Maish commenced: an attachment suit in the circuit court of Scott county in the State…