Harris v. People

The plaintiffs were prosecuted by the same information for a joint attempt at burglary, and1 were convicted. The burglary was set forth as at common law, but the pleader saw fit to add that Harris was armed and "Williams not armed. As we understand the record, it is now contended that, by this means,, the information assumed to implead the two as having 'jointly attempted to commit what, if the attempt had been carried out, must have been a separate and distinct crime by each, and would not have been a single joint offense on the part of both ; and the argument is dyawn from the regulations…