People v. Smith

Plaintiff in error, John P. Smith, was indicted, tried and convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the murder of John C. Smith by shooting him with a revolver. Since the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded for another trial for errors of law hereinafter pointed out, only a brief outline of the facts will be stated, without discussing them.

The deceased, at the time he lost his life, was engaged in the real estate business on Colorado avenue, near Fortieth avenue, in the city of Chicago, and lived on Harrison street a little west of Forty-first avenue, a block and a half…