The People v. Bradley

Alfred Bradley, who will hereafter be called defendant, was convicted in the circuit court of Menard county under an indictment charging him with the murder of John W. Tice in Menard county January 31, 1926, by striking and cutting him with a knife. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled by the court and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of twenty-five years. He has sued out this writ of error to review the judgment.

Defendant was between eighteen and nineteen years old at the time of the homicide and deceased was twenty or twenty-one…