Gould v. People

This was a prosecution for a riot, in the county court of Edwards county. As the foundation of the prosecution, this affidavit was filed as the information:

“Joseph Weber, of the county of Richland and State of Illinois, after being first duly sworn, upon his oath says, that Philander Gould and William Newbery, of said county of Edwards, on the 17th day of December, A. D. 1877, at said county of Edwards, did do a lawful act in a violent and tumultuous manner, in this, that they took possession of certain hogs under a chattel mortgage given by said Weber to the said Gould,-and they took…