People v. Brown

Charley Brown, Ed Morrison and Charles Payne were indicted by the grand jury of the city court of Granite City, Madison county, Illinois, for an assault with intent to murder Jeremiah Odem, who was a police officer of Granite City. The assault is alleged to have been committed on June 12, 1917. They were tried and convicted in December, 1918, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary at Chester. Since the trial Payne has died, and defendants Morrison and Brown have sued out this writ of error.

The defendants did not testify on the trial. The record discloses that on June 12, 1917, and…