Leach v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Adams county; the Hon. Joseph Sibley, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment for murder, charging Byron Leach and Montgomery Leach with the murder of Andrew F. Price. Upon the trial, Montgomery Leach was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, and Byron Leach was acquitted.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Adams county; the Hon. Joseph Sibley, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment for murder, charging Byron Leach and Montgomery Leach with the murder of Andrew F. Price. Upon the trial, Montgomery Leach was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment, and Byron Leach was acquitted. To reverse the judgment of the court below this writ of error is prosecuted, and among the errors assigned is the overruling of defendant’s challenge, for cause, of the two jurors, George Stopher and Thomas Wallace. The following examination will show the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
This was an indictment preferred by the grand jury of Adams county, against Montgomery Leach and Byron Leach, and tried at the May term, 1869, of the circuit court of that county, for the murder of Andrew Price. Montgomery Leach was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Byron Leach was acquitted.
A motion for a new trial was overruled, and the judgment of the court pronounced in accordance with the verdict.
To reverse this judgment this writ of error is prosecuted, and various errors assigned.
We will not undertake to notice all of them with equal particularity,…
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