Lyons v. People

The plaintiff in error was indicted, with John Nichols and Edward Prendergast, for the murder of Pere Peterson on July 4, 1889. The three defendants were placed upon trial, but at the close of the evidence for the People, Nichols and Prendergast were discharged upon a motion made by their counsel to take the case as to them from the consideration of the jury. The trial then proceeded, and the jury found the plaintiff in error guilty and fixed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for life.

Three Swedes named Gust Johnson, Fritz Lundling and Pere Peterson, the deceased, spent the…