The People v. O'Grady

The plaintiff in error, Matthew J. O’Grady, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county on February 19, 1929, of assault with intent to murder. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment having been overruled and judgment entered upon the verdict, he has sued out this writ of error to review that judgment.

An extended statement of the facts will be unnecessary. The assault occurred on March 20, 1928, during a quarrel which appears to have been the culmination of a series of petty quarrels between the complaining witness, Ralph Oakley, and his wife, and the wife and child of…