Thomson v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an indictment for obtaining property under false pretenses. The bill was found in the Stephenson Circuit Court, and is in the words and figures following, to wit: The grand jurors, chosen, selected and sworn in and for the said county of Stephenson, in the name and by the authority of the People of the State of Illinois, upon their oaths, present: That one Robert C. Thomson, late of said county, on the twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord one…
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This was an indictment for obtaining property under false pretenses. The bill was found in the Stephenson Circuit Court, and is in the words and figures following, to wit: The grand jurors, chosen, selected and sworn in and for the said county of Stephenson, in the name and by the authority of the People of the State of Illinois, upon their oaths, present: That one Robert C. Thomson, late of said county, on the twenty-second day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the said county of Stephenson, knowingly and designedly devising and intending by…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
As the record in this case does not purport to contain all the evidence given on the trial, we are left to decide alone upon the sufficiency of the indictment.
Before considering the indictment, a preliminary objection, growing out of the rejection of Hiram C. Best, as a juror, will be disposed of. When examined touching his qualifications, he said he had conversed with a witness in the case, and 'formed an opinion as far as he heard—that he believed what he heard, but that he had not formed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner—that he had formed an opinion as far as he had…
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