Logg v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment in the Knox circuit court against William Logg, John Logg, and James Logg, for a riot.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment in the Knox circuit court against William Logg, John Logg, and James Logg, for a riot. The seventh and eighth instructions given for the People are as follows: “ 7. If the jury believe from the evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, that James Logg and John Logg, while acting together, struck Amos Means at the school meeting in school district Ho. 9, in Ontario township, in Knox county, State of Illinois, in April, 1877, not in necessary self-defence, and in a riotous manner,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
The defendants were indicted and convicted, in the court below, of a riot. The second count of the indictment, and the one upon which the jury returned a verdict of guilty, charges that the defendants “then and there being together, did, unlawfully, tumultuously, and with force and violence, assault, beat, ill treat and wound Martin Lowry and Amos Means, with the unlawful intent then and there to assault said Martin Lowry and Amos Means, contrary,” etc.
On the trial, the State’s attorney offered to examine one John S. Hollett, as a witness on behalf of the People, but the counsel for the…
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