People v. Connors

The plaintiff in error was convicted in the circuit court of McHenry county on an indictment charging him in four counts with having burglariously and forcibly broken and entered a railroad car of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company with intent to rob, steal, take and carry away the goods and chattels of the railway company then and there found. His motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled, he was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, and he has sued out a writ of error.

The motion in arrest of judgment is based upon the failure of the indictment, and…