Illinois v. Fletcher

The sworn petition of John Fletcher and Julius Yat-taw states that on the twenty-ninth day of November, 1884, they and James Smith were jointly indicted in the criminal court of Cook county, Illinois, for the crime of murder upon one William Curnan, by which a criminal prosecution was begun, in the name and by the authority of the people of the state of Illinois, against the petitioners, which is now pending in the state court, and upon which they are. •confined in the county jail of Cook county awaiting trial. After further stating that at the time the alleged killing and murder occurred,…