Graham v. People

The plaintiffs in error, Eobert Graham and Hugh McCue, were convicted, in the Criminal Court of Cook county, of the crime of robbing the prosecutor of his watch.

On the trial the following question was asked the prosecuting witness, viz: “Have you been approached by anybody in the interest of these defendants, and have you taken any money to settle this case?” to which he made the following answer: “Yes, sir; I took $25 from Mr. Hemingway, the uncle of Graham, in payment of my watch, as I supposed. The watch was not mine. It belongs to another man, who left it with me as security for a bill,…