The People v. Harrison

Plaintiff in error, Camilla Harrison, was convicted in the circuit court of Marion county of the crime of assault to commit murder and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at Joliet.

The assault arose out of a quarrel between plaintiff in error and Blanch Dunaway, two negro women of Centraba, the former accusing the latter of having illicit relations with her husband. Dunaway testified that she was standing in the yard of her neighbor, Florence Gatlin, visiting with her, about 9:3o o’clock in the morning of October 8, 1924; that as she turned to leave the yard to go home she met…