Baysinger v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Jackson county; the Hon. Egbert W. McCartney, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment found December 13, 1883, against D. H. Baysinger, under section 216 of the Criminal Code. A trial was had, resulting in a conviction of the defendant.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Jackson county; the Hon. Egbert W. McCartney, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment found December 13, 1883, against D. H. Baysinger, under section 216 of the Criminal Code. A trial was had, resulting in a conviction of the defendant. The defendant filed an affidavit in support of a motion for a new trial, showing newly discovered evidence, and that “the State’s attorney, in his closing speech, untruthfully charged defendant with stealing an affidavit made by affiant at a previous term of court for a continuance, and although defendant, by his counsel,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mulkey
On the 29th day of August, 1885, D. H. Baysinger, the plaintiff in error, xvas tried and convicted, in the Jackson county circuit court, for a violation of the 216th section of the Criminal Code, the jury fixing the term of his confinement in the penitentiary at one year. The accused was formally sentenced in conformity with the verdict, and the present writ of error is brought to reverse that sentence.
Numerous errors are assigned in the record, some of them presenting objections of a highly technical character, and clearly not tenable. Others are of a more serious character.
It appears that…
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