Palmer v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of McHenry County; the Hon. Charles H. Donnelly, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1903.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court. .
William Palmer was indicted and convicted in the court below for the larceny of two rolls of woven wire, the property of William Watts, alleged to be worth $18 and found to be worth $14. Palmer was fined and sentenced to imprisonment in jail, and has sued out this writ of error to reverse the judgment.
Watts owned a farm occupied by a tenant, and in February", 1903, distributed several rolls of wire through a timber lot on his farm where he intended to build an inside fence. He left one roll jtist inside the highway fence,…
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