Mingia v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Massac county ; the Hon. David J. Baker, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Albert P. Mingia, charging him with the murder of John T. Collier. A trial resulted in a verdict of guilty, the jury prescribing the punishment to be confinement in the penitentiary for the term of twenty years, and the prisoner was sentenced accordingly. He thereupon sued out this writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was an indictment in the circuit court of Massac county, for murder, presented by the grand jury at the November term, 1867.
A special term was held in the succeeding month of December, for the trial of the prisoner, and on being furnished with a copy of the indictment and a list of the jurors and witnesses, he was duly arraigned, and pleaded not guilty, and on his motion and affidavit a continuance was granted to the next May term.
At that term of the court, a further continuance was granted, on motion of the prisoner, to the next November term, at which term no other proceeding appears…
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