Hayward v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. William H. BarnUM, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Dickey
The plaintiff in error was convicted in October, 1879, in the Criminal Court of Cook county, upon an indictment charging him of murder, in the killing of James McMahon, on the night of December 7, 1878, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for and during his natural life.
He brings the record of his trial and conviction to this court, and asks that the judgment be reversed.
As to the leading facts of the case there is but little discrepancy in the testimony.
The accused, at the time of the killing, was twenty years of age, and at the time of the trial was five feet and eight inches…
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