Beasley v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. At the June term, 1877, of the Knox county circuit court, William H. Beasley was indicted for the crime of murder, in producing an abortion on Mattie Naslund from the effects of which she died.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. At the June term, 1877, of the Knox county circuit court, William H. Beasley was indicted for the crime of murder, in producing an abortion on Mattie Naslund from the effects of which she died. In the first count of the indictment it is charged, the accused “ did unlawfully, feloniously and willfully use a certain instrument called a gum-bougie, by then and there forcing, thrusting and inserting the said instrument, called a gum-bougie, into the womb and private parts of one Mattie Naslund, then and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
On the motion to quash, a question is made against the indictment, it was not returned into open court by a grand jury legally impaneled under the laws of this State. Twenty-three grand jurors were in fact chosen, and all of them were duly summoned to attend, but on the roll being called only twenty-two of the number chosen answered, and the one failing to answer was by the court excused from service for cause shown.
The grand jury was then regularly organized by appointing a foreman and administering to them the usuál oath, and consisted of twe,nty-two members but of the twenty-three chosen.…
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