Davison v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lake county ; the Hon. H. H. Cody, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Peter Davison for the murder of John Robertson, on Sept. 8, 1877. Robertson, the deceased, was one of the commissioners of highways of the town of Ella, in Lake county, and in company with the other two commissioners, Jacob Beese and August Knigge, and others, on Sept. 8, 1877, went to open a highway in front of Davison’s house, which the commissioners…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lake county ; the Hon. H. H. Cody, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Peter Davison for the murder of John Robertson, on Sept. 8, 1877. Robertson, the deceased, was one of the commissioners of highways of the town of Ella, in Lake county, and in company with the other two commissioners, Jacob Beese and August Knigge, and others, on Sept. 8, 1877, went to open a highway in front of Davison’s house, which the commissioners claimed had been obstructed by Davison, by building fences across it. Davison claimed the road had never been legally laid…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
Plaintiff in error was indicted at the November term, 1877, of the Lake circuit court, for the murder of one John Robertson. On the 1st day of December, of the samé year, he appeared and pleaded in abatement that four of the persons forming a part of the grand jury finding the indictment were over sixty years of age, and one of the grand jurors Avas a resident of the State of Wisconsin, and not a resident of this State; that but nineteen of the jurors selected by the board of supervisors were impaneled on the jury; that the remaining four Avere summoned under a special venire facias issued by…
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