Bowers v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
At the January term of the Recorder’s Court, of the city of Chicago, 1856, R. S. Wilson presiding, the following indictment was found: The grand jurors chosen, selected and sworn, in and for the city of Chicago, of the county of Cook, in the State of Hlinois, in the name and by the authority of the people of the State of Illinois, upon their oaths, present, that Elijah Bowers, late of said city, on the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight…
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At the January term of the Recorder’s Court, of the city of Chicago, 1856, R. S. Wilson presiding, the following indictment was found: The grand jurors chosen, selected and sworn, in and for the city of Chicago, of the county of Cook, in the State of Hlinois, in the name and by the authority of the people of the State of Illinois, upon their oaths, present, that Elijah Bowers, late of said city, on the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in said city of Chicago, in the county and State aforesaid, in and upon one Michael Hickey, in…
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
This was an indictment against Bowers for resisting an officer. The indictment charges that Bowers, on the twenty-first day of December, 1855, at Cook county, Illinois, in and upon one Michael Hickey, the said Michael Hickey then and there being a public officer, to wit, a constable, and being then and there in the due execution of his duty as constable, and being then and there attempting to serve a lawful process, did then and there unlawfully, knowingly and willfully resist, obstruct and oppose, and him, the said Hickey, acting as such officer, beat, wound, ill-treat, and so forth.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
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