Yates v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Franklin county; the Hon. A. D. Duff, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lawrence
This was an indictment against the plaintiff in error for murder, found by the grand jury of Hamilton county, and taken by change of venue to Franklin county. A verdict of guilty was rendered upon the trial, and a motion tor a new trial having been overruled, the defendant below sued out a writ of error.
The evidence in the record shows substantially the following state of facts:
About the 1st of March, 1864, the plaintiff in error and one William B. Hampton, the deceased, were going home together from a mill in Hamilton county. When they left the mill, Hampton was lying on his right side in…
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