Miller v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error from the Circuit Court of Clark county; the Hon. Charles H. Constable, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against the plaintiffs in error, for robbery, found at the March Term, A. D. 1865. On the trial Isaac B. Randolph testified as follows: “ My name is Isaac B. Randolph; I live in Clark county; on the night of the 5th of March last, while I was in bed, asleep, the front door was bursted in and three men entered my house, one with a candle in his hand,…
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Writ of Error from the Circuit Court of Clark county; the Hon. Charles H. Constable, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against the plaintiffs in error, for robbery, found at the March Term, A. D. 1865. On the trial Isaac B. Randolph testified as follows: “ My name is Isaac B. Randolph; I live in Clark county; on the night of the 5th of March last, while I was in bed, asleep, the front door was bursted in and three men entered my house, one with a candle in his hand, the other two with revolvers; they were blacked; one wore a slouched hat and a handkerchief tied over it; they presented…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was an indictment in the Circuit Court of Clark county for robbery. The prisoners were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. They bring the case here by writ of error, and assign for error the giving the third, sixth, eighth, tenth, "eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth instructions on behalf of the people, in refusing the eighth instruction asked by the prisoners, in permitting the confession of Francis to go to the jury, and in overruling the motion for a new trial.
The record shows the confession of Francis was extorted from him by a high-handed act of violence and…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Reins v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1863
- Vise v. County of HamiltonIllinois Supreme Court · 1857
- Crabtree v. HagenbaughIllinois Supreme Court · 1861
- Erskine v. DavisIllinois Supreme Court · 1861
3Cited by48 opinions
- Spies v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1887
- The People v. CagleIllinois Supreme Court · 1969
- Carlton v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
- Glover v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1906
- State v. TaylorSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
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