People v. Spencer
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. Mazzini Slusser, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
At the October term, 1913, of the circuit court of Du-Page county the grand jury returned an indictment against the plaintiff in error, Henry C. Spencer, for the murder of Mildred Allison, alias Mildred Rexroat. On a trial before a jury in that county a verdict of guilty was returned and his punishment fixed at death. After motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment had been overruled he was sentenced to be hanged. The record is before us for review.
At about 8:23 o’clock in the evening of September 26, 1913, a freight train on the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern railroad running in a northerly…
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