The People v. Shaffer

Plaintiff in error, Lionel Shaffer, was found guilty by a jury in January, 1923, of the crime of armed robbery, in the circuit court of Kane county. The indictment charged robbery, and also “that the said Lionel Shaffer then and there was armed with a certain dangerous weapon, towit with a certain revolver, and with the said revolver then and there did beat, strike and wound him, the said Robert Brannick, in the said robbery.” The jury found the defendant guilty “in manner and form as charged in the indictment.” The court sentenced the defendant to imprisonment in the penitentiary at Joliet…