Nordgren v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oE Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon.- A. IT. Ci-iETlain, Judge, presiding. This is an indictment of the plaintiff in error by a grand jury of Cook county for the murder of his wife, Ellen T. Nordgren. Plaintiff in error was tried in the criminal court of Cook county in February, 1903, and found guilty by the jury of the offense charged against him.
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Writ oE Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon.- A. IT. Ci-iETlain, Judge, presiding. This is an indictment of the plaintiff in error by a grand jury of Cook county for the murder of his wife, Ellen T. Nordgren. Plaintiff in error was tried in the criminal court of Cook county in February, 1903, and found guilty by the jury of the offense charged against him. The jury, before whom he was tried, fixed his punishment in their verdict at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of thirty years. Motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled, and on October 17,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
The charge against the plaintiff in error is, that he caused the death of his wife by giving her whisky which contained strychnine, or some other kind of poison. The only evidence against the defendant is an alleged dying declaration made by his wife. The circumstances connected with the making of this dying declaration, so far as they are disclosed by the record, are substantially as follows:
On October 2, 1902, the deceased was with her roommate, Miss Otness, at different places from eleven o’clock in the morning to four o’clock in the afte'rnoon. The record does not disclose the whereabouts…
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