Farrell v. People

Plaintiff in error and one James Norton were jointly indicted for the crime of robbery, alleged to have been committed on the person of Nathaniel Irwin, and put upon their trial in the Criminal Court of Cook county, October 31, 1889. They were convicted, and their terms of imprisonment in the penitentiary fixed at four years and ten months. Motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment being overruled, and the sentence pronounced on the yerdiet, Farrell prosecutes this writ of error.

Of the several errors assigned, and urged as grounds of reversal, it will be sufficient to notice two.

Counsel…