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· 6/15/1878

Penrod v. People

Citations

  • 89 Ill. 150

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law—variance in proof and allegation. Where one is indicted for the murder of one “Robert Kain,” and the evidence fails to show that the person killed was of that name, the witnesses calling him “ Kain,” without giving any Christian name, the variance is fatal, and judgment of conviction will be reversed.</p>

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