People v. Curran
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Kickham Scanlan, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Holdom
delivered the opinion of the court.
A vigorous and severely critical attack is made by the counsel for defendants upon the conduct of the learned judge who presided at the trial. We have no hesitation in repelling this attack by saying that it is wholly unwarranted. Seldom in the history of trials in this jurisdiction has a judge béen confronted with so difficult a task as was the judge in this case, and to the credit of the judiciary be it said that he discharged the duties imposed upon him with equanimity and fairness and that by no action of his were the rights…
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