Lyons v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. Edavin S. Leland, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Michael Lyons and Stephen Shevelin, for burglary. The facts are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Schoubveld
The indictment upon which the defendants Avere convicted contains two counts. The first count charges:
That the defendants, on the 13th day of September, 1871, at the county of La Salle, “in the night time of the same day, a freight railroad car of the Illinois Central Railroad Com-O pany, incorporated as such railroad company under the laws of the State of Illinois, by virtue of an act of the General Assembly thereof, feloniously,-wilfully, maliciously and forcibly did then and there break and enter, with intent the goods and chattels of the said Illinois Central Railroad Company, in the said…
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