Legal Opinion

Bartley v. People

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided May 10, 1895PublishedCited by 24 opinions

Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Gallatin county; the Hon. E. D. Youngblood, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Wilkin

At the September term of the circuit court of Gallatin county plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of burglary, and sentenced to the State reformatory at Pontiac, to be there imprisoned until discharged according to law. To reverse that judgment this writ of error has been sued out.

The first error assigned is, that the court below erred in overruling defendant’s motion to quash the indictment. That motion was based upon the fact that the names of the witnesses upon whose evidence the indictment was found were not indorsed upon it by the foreman of the grand jury. That the names of…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. People ex rel. Bradley v. Illinois State ReformatoryIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
  2. Andrews v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
  3. Scott v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1872
  4. Austine v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1869

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. People v. LettrichIllinois Supreme Court · 1952
  2. The People v. FoxIllinois Supreme Court · 1925
  3. The People v. SwiftIllinois Supreme Court · 1925
  4. The People v. CrooksIllinois Supreme Court · 1927
  5. People v. CorderIllinois Supreme Court · 1922

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