Conkrite v. Miller

Full title: Charles Conkrite, Appellant, v. Ward T. Miller, Appellee

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois

Date published: Apr 12, 1941

309 Ill. App. 649 (Ill. App. Ct. 1941)

33 N.E.2d 738

Opinion

Gen. No. 9,652. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed April 12, 1941.

ASSAULT AND BATTERY, § 22^_ — self-defense, sufficiency of evidence. In action against sheriff for assault, verdict for defendant was supported by the evidence, where it appeared that plaintiff became abusive while visiting his son at the county jail, and that after he had been ordered to leave he made a sudden motion toward defendant, who pushed him off the porch of the jail in self-defense.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, name topic and section number.

Appeal from Circuit Court of Lee county; Hon. HARRY E. WHEAT, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in this court at February term, 1941; opinion filed April 12, 1941.

Dixon, Devine, Bracken Dixon, for appellant;

Robert L. Bracken and Sherwood Dixon, of counsel;

Warner Warner, for appellee;

Henry C. Warner, of counsel.

Opinion by JUSTICE HUFFMAN.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed April 12, 1941.