People v. Murphy
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. AdElor J. Petit, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn
On March 20, 1915, .John Murphy, the plaintiff in error, was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for an indefinite term not exceeding the maximum fixed by the statute for the crime of manslaughter, of which he had been found guilty by a jury in the criminal court of Cook county. On September 30, 1920, he sued out a writ of error to reverse the judgment. The Attorney General filed a plea that the writ of error was not sued out within three years after the rendition of the judgment, to which the plaintiff in error has demurred.
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