Bishop v. People

This is a writ of error to the McLean circuit court seeking to reverse a judgment rendered there convicting the plaintiffs in error of the crime of grand larceny. They were found guilty upon an indictment charging them, jointly with one Prank Lott, of stealing two hundred pounds of copper wire, of the value of fifteen cents per pound, belonging to Henry Keiser. Prank Lott was granted a separate trial.

It appears from the evidence that prior to January, 1900, several rolls of old copper wire had been taken from poles by Henry Keiser, owner of the electric light plant at Heyworth, in McLean…