Brooks v. People

On the 14th day of March, 1877, Franklin Brooks and James Rosso were committed to the common jail of Cook county, under a mittimus issued by a justice of the peace, to await the action of the grand jury, charged with the commission of an abortion upon the body of one Carrie Raymond.

At the March term, 1877, of the Criminal Court of that county, an indictment was returned against them, consisting of four counts, of which three were quashed upon motion of the defendants, and to the fourth a nolle prosequi was entered by the State’s attorney. A new indictment was thereafter found, and returned by…