Ellis v. People

Miles Ellis, plaintiff in error, and one Samuel Arkiand, under an indictment for the murder of Leopold DeSchepper, were at the June term, 1895, of the circuit court of Henry county, found guilty of manslaughter. Ellis was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the period of three years. Arkiand, being under twenty-one years of age, was sent to the reform school. While engaged in a drunken brawl, in the night time, in front of the house of one DePleger, in which brawl there were four or more participants, DeSchepper was struck on the head with a detached pump handle, and from the…