Dougherty v. People

The defendant and others were indicted by the grand jury of Cook county for the crime of murder, committed in that county, and on trial in the Criminal Court of Cook county, at its March term, A. D. 1883, the defendant was convicted of the crime, and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of his natural life. The court, at the same time, made an order that the defendant have sixty days within which to file a bill of exceptions, and accordingly a bill of exceptions was signed by the judge before whom the trial was had, and filed in the office of the clerk of the Cook circuit court, on the…