Norris v. People

Citations

• 101 Ill. 408
• 1882 Ill. LEXIS 100

Syllabus

<p>Murder—sufficiency of the evidence to convict. Where the deceased, who was shot by assassins, in his dying declaration stated that the defendant and his confederates were distinctly recognized by him at the time of the shooting, which was corroborated by another witness’ testimony of a conversation with the defendant, which tended to show his guilty knowledge and ax>prehension of arrest for the killing, and the defence was an alibi attempted to he shown by those charged as being confederates and actors in the homicide, and then- relatives, it was held, that the evidence did not justify the court in granting a new trial on a conviction, and sentence of the defendant to the penitentiary for eighteen years.</p>