People v. Penman
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court oí Champaign county; the Hon. Solon Philbrick, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn
Augustus Penman, having, been convicted in the circuit court of Champaign county of murder and sentenced, to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life, has sued out a writ of error to reverse the judgment..
The indictment was returned at a term of the court beginning on the first Monday of September, 1913.' It is insisted that there was no law authorizing the holding' of a term of the circuit court at that time, and therefore the proceedings were without jurisdiction and the judgment should have been arrested. An act approved June n, 1897, was passed by the legislature, entitled “An act to…
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