Waters v. People

At the March term, 1897, of the Fulton county circuit court, the plaintiff in error, Waters, was jointly indicted with Frank Maple, Frank McGrew and Edward Farris for the burglary of the store of one N. S. Wrig'ht, at Canton, Illinois, on the night of the 11th or the morning of the 12th of January, 1897. Frank Maple, one of the defendants, pleaded guilty, and Frank McGrew and Edward Farris entered 'their pleas of not guilty, and on a trial before a jury were adjudged guilty. The defendant McGrew was sentenced to the State reformatory, and the defendants Farris and Maple were sentenced to…