People v. Darr

Samuel F. Darr and Harvey Austin Six, the plaintiffs in error, together with Louis Wood Hill and John Doe, were indicted at the September term of the circuit court of Peoria county, 1911, for a conspiracy to obtain money and property from the German Fire Insurance Company of Peoria by means of false pretenses. Darr and Six were jointly tried at the January term, 1912, of the circuit court and found guilty, and each of them was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of three years. A writ of error was sued out by them from the Appellate Court for the Second District, and that court having…