The People v. Deal

The plaintiffs in error, Harold Deal and Clarence Lemmons, (hereinafter called the defendants,) were by an indictment returned by a grand jury of Effingham county charged with the crime of robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. They were tried by a jury, which returned a verdict of guilty. The motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment interposed by them were severally overruled and they were sentenced to the Illinois Reformatory at Pontiac for the indeterminate sentence fixed by the statute. To reverse the judgment of conviction they have sued out this writ of error.

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