Legal Opinion

People v. Buettner

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided February 20, 1908PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. Kavanagh, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Vickers

The plaintiff in error, Adolph Buettner, was jointly indicted and tried with Patrick O’Connell in the criminal court of Cook county, at the July term, 1907, for the murder of Nellie Walsh. Upon the trial the jury found a verdict of not guilty as to O’Connell and a verdict of guilty of manslaughter as to plaintiff in error.

The indictment charged that the death of Nellie Walsh was caused by an attempt to produce an abortion. In some of the counts of the indictment it was charged that an abortion was produced by the use of some instrument the description of which was unknown to the grand jurors.…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Carver v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. State v. CantienySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1885
  3. People v. LonsdaleMichigan Supreme Court · 1899
  4. State v. WilsonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1880
  5. Hammil v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1891

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. People v. TilleyIllinois Supreme Court · 1950
  2. People v. HaenselIllinois Supreme Court · 1920
  3. State v. BrownSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1941
  4. The People v. HatcherIllinois Supreme Court · 1929
  5. People v. BorellaIllinois Supreme Court · 1924

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