People v. Lyons

Williamson, J.:—

At the April term, defendants were brought into court for trial, upon a plea of not guilty, to an indictment for obtaining money by means of a confidence game. The case was called for trial and a jury had been ordered into the box, when said defendants in person and by George Sparling,' their attorney (selected and employed by themselves), voluntarily and without solicitation, appeared before the bar of the court, and expressly waived their right of trial by a jury, and requested me as the presiding judge of said court, to hear and determine all the questions of law and of…