People v. Mighell

The plaintiff in error was convicted of murder and sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. He insists that the court erred in instructing the jury, that the argument of the State’s attorney was improper and prejudicial and that the verdict was contrary to the evidence.

On Saturday evening, June 3, 1911, Emory Kincade, the deceased, was standing on the west side of the bridge across Rock river on Galena avenue, in Dixon, forty or fifty feet from the north end. Close to him on the south, in the order named, were Thomas Tyler, John Remington and Harry Tyler, a son of…