Legal Opinion

People v. Terrell

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided February 21, 1914PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery county; the Hon. Thomas M. Jett, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn

The plaintiff in error having shot and killed her husband, Fred W. Terrell, was indicted for murder, and having been convicted and sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary has sued out this writ of error to review the record.

The plaintiff in error, who was fifty-three years old at the time of the homicide, had been married -to a man named Barnstable, from whom she was divorced, and on December 24, 1907, she married Fred W. Terrell, with whom she lived until his death. They were then living at Nokomis, which had been their home most of the time since their marriage, and…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Carle v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1902
  2. Hirschman v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1881
  3. People v. HarrisonIllinois Supreme Court · 1914
  4. Cannon v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  5. Crowell v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1901

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. The People v. WolffIllinois Supreme Court · 1960
  2. The PEOPLE v. CanadayIllinois Supreme Court · 1971
  3. People v. FoxIllinois Supreme Court · 1915
  4. The People v. GibsonIllinois Supreme Court · 1944
  5. The People v. MooreIllinois Supreme Court · 1938

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