Watson v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Alfred Sample, Judge, presiding. The plaintiff in error, William Watson, was indicted by the grand jury of McLean county, Illinois, at the February term, A. D. 1890, for the crime of burglary. The indictment contains four counts.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Alfred Sample, Judge, presiding. The plaintiff in error, William Watson, was indicted by the grand jury of McLean county, Illinois, at the February term, A. D. 1890, for the crime of burglary. The indictment contains four counts. The first count charges “that William Watson, late of said county, on the 26th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, at and within the- said county of McLean and State aforesaid, the dwelling house of Frank Bean, there situate, willfully, maliciously, forcibly,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
It is impossible to sustain this conviction without disregarding well established rules of law applicable to criminal trials. As will be seen from the foregoing statement, the attention of the jury was specially directed to the first count of the indictment by the twenty-second instruction, and they were directed to fix the prisoner’s term in the penitentiary at twenty years, if they found he committed the crime charged in that count. It is true, it requires the jury to also believe, from the evidence, - that the defendant had been previously convicted of the crime of burglary and larceny,…
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