South v. People

At the June term, 1880, of the Macoupin circuit court, Palmer South, plaintiff in error, was indicted for the murder of one James C. Hart, in said county, on the 20th day of April, 1867. At the following September term of the court the defendant pleaded not guilty. A trial was had, which resulted in a verdict of guilty, and the jury fixed the imprisonment of the defendant in the penitentiary at fourteen years.

The defendant sued out a writ of error, and assigns for a reversal of the judgment, two errors: First, that the court erred in refusing two of his instructions; second, that the evidence…