Roach v. People

John Roach and Patrick Roach, the plaintiffs in error, were indicted at the November term, 1874, of the McLean circuit court, for manslaughter, in taking the life of John Byron Dunlap. The indictment contains three counts. The first count charges, in substance, that on October 10, 1874, in McLean county, the defendants unlawfully, feloniously and wilfully made an assault upon said Dunlap, with a knife held in the hand of John Roach, and upon the side of the left breast of said Dunlap then and there unlawfully, feloniously and wilfully did strike, out, stab anil thrust, giving to said Dunlap,…