Westbrook v. People

At the September term, 1887, of the Macon circuit court, plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of one William Gross. On a trial at the next term he was found guilty, the jury fixing his punishment at death. Motion for a new trial and in arrest of judgment being overruled, he was sentenced to be executed on the 30th day of March last. At the Ottawa term of this court, begun in the last named month, a writ of error was ordered, and the same made a supersedeas, and the record now comes before us for final review.

Deceased resided in the village of Blue Mound, where he and Charles Gross,…