Comfort v. People

At the February term, 1869, of the recorder’s court of Chicago, an indictment was presented by the grand jury against plaintiff in error, for stealing a gold watch, of the value of $175, the property of Herman Leib, together with other articles of personal property. He pleaded not guilty, and subsequently a trial was had by the court and a jury, resulting in a verdict of guilty, and a sentence to confinement in the penitentiary for one year. Whereupon he sued out this writ of error, and brings the record to this court and seeks a reversal of that judgment.

On the trial in the court below, it…