The People v. Winchester

Plaintiff in error, Charles Winchester, (herein called defendant, ) was indicted, tried and convicted in the circuit court of St. Clair county for the murder of Emil Kirsch. By the verdict of the jury his punishment was fixed at death. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he has sued out of this court a writ of error for a review of the record.

As shown by the witnesses W. W. Boyne, the coroner, who was also by profession a physician, and Henry Daut, drug clerk, the evidence presented for the People is substantially as follows: The deceased was a barber, who worked in a barber shop…