Gainey v. People

Patrick Gainey and Patrick Grogan, plaintiffs in error, and James McCormac, were jointly indicted and tried at the January term, 1880, of the Bock Island circuit court, for the murder of Conrad Wittick, resulting in the acquittal of Mc-Cormac and-the conviction of Gainey and Grogan. A motion for a new trial having been overruled, the court, in pursuance of the verdict, sentenced Gainey and Grogan to the penitentiary, the former for fourteen years and the latter for his natural life, and the present writ of error is prosecuted to reverse that sentence. .

It appears, from the evidence, that the…