People v. King

Plaintiff in error, Harrison King, was found guilty in the circuit court of Peoria county of the murder of Norman Gray, the jury fixing the penalty at deatln/ The trial court entered judgment on the verdict and fixed the date of the execution for June 17, 1916. This writ of error has been sued out to review the record.

January 24, 1916, at about eleven o’clock P. M., Norman Gray, a police officer of the-city of Peoria, was shot and almost instantly killed in the saloon of Dave Amburn, in said city, just after the officer had placed under arrest the plaintiff in error and John Welch. Some six…