People v. Duncan

Clyde Duncan was convicted of murder and prosecutes a writ of error to reverse the judgment.

Duncan kept a saloon at the corner of Washington and Bridge streets, in the city of Peoria, in which the homicide occurred on Friday evening, September 28, 1923, about 9:3o o’clock; About that time the deceased, John Grant Powell, in company with two associates, entered the saloon and immediately began cursing and abusing Duncan, who was standing behind the bar with his bar-keeper, William McKinney. Duncan answered in kind and volleys of profanity and obscenity were exchanged between the two…