Fisher v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an indictment for murder, charging the plaintiff in error with killing his wife, Clarissa B. Fisher, on the 18th day of July, 1859. A witness for plaintiff in error was called, and plaintiff in error offered to prove by her and by several others the infidelity of deceased, to which the counsel for the People objected ; the court sustained the objection, and the plaintiff in error excepted.
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This was an indictment for murder, charging the plaintiff in error with killing his wife, Clarissa B. Fisher, on the 18th day of July, 1859. A witness for plaintiff in error was called, and plaintiff in error offered to prove by her and by several others the infidelity of deceased, to which the counsel for the People objected ; the court sustained the objection, and the plaintiff in error excepted. Said Fisher, by his counsel, offered in evidence Chitty’s Medical Jurisprudence, Shelford on Lunacy, Beck’s Medical Jurisprudence, Taylor’s Medical Jurisprudence, and Wharton’s Medical…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
The loose and disconnected manner in which this record is made up and presented to the court, would fully justify, in an ordinary case, its rejection altogether, but as it is in a case in which the life of an individual is involved, we have studiously endeavored to extract from it all such portions as we have deemed the most important. We will state very briefly the results at which we have arrived, no time being allowed for elaborate argument or illustration.
Very many exceptions have been taken to the rulings of the court on the various questions raised, 'all of which we do not consider it…
2Cited by19 opinions
- Fisher v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Spies v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
- State v. HoytSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1880
- Commonwealth v. HouseSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
- People v. BeckIllinois Supreme Court · 1922
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