Cochran v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Cumberland county; the Hon. Frank K. Dunn, Judge, presiding. At the Aug'ust term, 1897, of the circuit court of Cumberland county, the grand jury returned an indictment of two counts against the plaintiff in error, charging him with the crime of producing an abortion. At the following February term, 1898, he appeared before the court and entered a motion to quash the indictment and- each count thereof, which was overruled.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Cumberland county; the Hon. Frank K. Dunn, Judge, presiding. At the Aug'ust term, 1897, of the circuit court of Cumberland county, the grand jury returned an indictment of two counts against the plaintiff in error, charging him with the crime of producing an abortion. At the following February term, 1898, he appeared before the court and entered a motion to quash the indictment and- each count thereof, which was overruled. He then entered his plea of not guilty, and a trial was had resulting in a verdict of guilty “of an attempt to procure an abortion,”…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
We are unable to see how the jury, upon the evidence as it is presented to us, could reach the conclusion that there was no reasonable doubt of the guilt of the plaintiff in error. In Hoyt v. People, 140 Ill. 588, and Campbell v. People, 159 id. 9, the defendants were each found guilty on the uncorroborated testimony of accomplices, and the judgments of conviction were reversed on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdicts. What was said in those cases as to the credibility of such testimony applies with at least equal force to the evidence of David Wickham in this…
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