Davids v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. John Small, Judge, presiding. This is an indictment for an assault with intent to commit murder against plaintiff in error, filed in the circuit court of Kankakee county on October 2, 1900. The cause was continued to the January term, 1901, upon the motion of plaintiff in error.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. John Small, Judge, presiding. This is an indictment for an assault with intent to commit murder against plaintiff in error, filed in the circuit court of Kankakee county on October 2, 1900. The cause was continued to the January term, 1901, upon the motion of plaintiff in error. The cause came on for trial at the January term, 1901. The jury returned a verdict, finding the defendant guilty of the crime of assault with intent to commit murder in the manner and form as charged in the indictment, and that the defendant’s age was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
First—The first error assigned by the plaintiff in error is that the court below erred in sustaining the People’s demurrer to plaintiff in error’s plea in abatement.
Plaintiff in error was indicted under the name of William Davids. He filed the following plea in abatement:
“Now comes William David, Jr., who is indicted by the name of William Davids, in his own proper person, and having heard the said indictment read, says that William David, Jr., is his name, and that by that name he was always called and known; without this, that he, the said William David, Jr., now is or at any time…
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