Kota v. People

At the October term, 1889, of the circuit court of LaSalle county, plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of murder, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of forty years. The indictment on which he was convicted, charged him with killing one George Bartkiewitz, by stabbing. The killing is not denied, but it was insisted upon the trial below that it was done in self-defense; It is here urged as a ground of reersal, that even if the homicide was not justifiable, yet the verdict of the jury finding the defendant guilty of murder was: unauthorized by the evidence, for the reason…