People v. Arthur

Plaintiff in error, George Opal Arthur, (hereafter called defendant,) has sued out this writ of error to review a judgment of the circuit court of Piatt county on a conviction for murder and inflicting the death penalty.

Defendant is a single man about thirty years old and lived with his parents on a rented farm about two and a quarter miles south of Monticello, the county seat. He had served overseas with the American expeditionary forces and was discharged in August, 1919, after the close of the World War, and returned to his parents’ home. He was employed by J. P. Kratz, owner of a…