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  "name": "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Ed Cook, Plaintiff in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "People v. Cook",
  "decision_date": "1927-02-16",
  "docket_number": "No. 17719",
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    "parties": [
      "The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Ed Cook, Plaintiff in Error."
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    "opinions": [
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Heard\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nIn the circuit court of Gallatin county plaintiff in error, Ed Cook, was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to a term of eighteen years\u2019 imprisonment in the penitentiary for the murder of Thomas Lang, and the record is now\" before this court for review upon writ of error.\nOn December 8, 1926, what purported to be a bill of exceptions was by order of this court stricken from the files of this case and no bill of exceptions is now on file herein. The alleged errors relied upon and discussed in plaintiff in error\u2019s brief and argument relate only to the admission of evidence, the giving and refusing of instructions and the sufficiency of the evidence. None of these questions can be considered by this court without a bill of exceptions. No error being assigned and argued upon the record of this case as it exists here, there is nothing for the court to consider. People v. Newcom, 318 Ill. 188.\nThe judgment of the circuit court of Gallatin county-must be affirmed.\nT , judgment affirmed.",
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        "author": "Mr. Justice Heard"
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    "attorneys": [
      "William Denton, and James E. Denton, for plaintiff in error.",
      "Oscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General, Joseph L. Bartley, State\u2019s Attorney, and Edward C. Fitch, for the People."
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    "head_matter": "(No. 17719.\nJudgment affirmed.)\nThe People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, vs. Ed Cook, Plaintiff in Error.\nOpinion filed February 16, 1927.\nCriminal law \u2014 when judgment must be affirmed for want of bill of exceptions. Where the alleged errors relied upon by the plaintiff in error relate only to the admission of evidence, the giving and refusing of instructions and the sufficiency of the evidence and there is no bill of exceptions in the record the judgment of conviction must be affirmed, as there is nothing for the Supreme Court to consider.\nWrit oe Error to the Circuit Court of Gallatin county; the Hon. J. C. EaglETon, Judge, presiding. .\nWilliam Denton, and James E. Denton, for plaintiff in error.\nOscar E. Carlstrom, Attorney General, Joseph L. Bartley, State\u2019s Attorney, and Edward C. Fitch, for the People."
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