Cantwell v. People

At the May term, 1890, of the circuit court of Will county, •plaintiff in error and one James Diegnan were jointly indicted for the larceny of $35, the property of James Harris. The case was continued to the following September term, when plaintiff in error was tried and convicted, his punishment being fixed at one year in the penitentiary. He prosecutes this writ, of error and urges several grounds of reversal, especially that the court below erred in overruling his petition for a change of venue. That petition was based upon the alleged prejudice-of Charles Blanchard and Dorr anee Dibell,…