Watson v. People

The suggestion in appellee’s brief, that criminal cases do not come to this court by appeal, and therefore this appeal should be dismissed, is answered by Dinet v. People, 73 Ill. 183, the case having been presented on the merits by briefs on both sides.

The position of the appellant that he ought to have been discharged for the delay in bringing him to trial, is not well taken. He was arrested April 14, 1887. The April term is not to be counted as the first term. Ochs v. People, 25 Ill. App. 379, 124 Ill. 399. At the May term the cause was continued by agreement. At the June term he pleaded…