The People v. Casey

Plaintiff in error was indicted in the circuit court of Hancock county for the murder of Oliver Peck on November 2, 1931. On trial the jury found him guilty, found his age to be about forty-one years, and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of fourteen years. He brings the cause here for review, urging as his principal contentions that the evidence fails to prove him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the court erred in giving certain instructions on behalf of the People and in refusing certain instructions offered in his behalf.

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