The People v. Wilson

Theodore Wilson was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county jointly with Joseph Allman and Frank Wilson for robbery while armed with a pistol. His co-defendants pleaded guilty and he was put on trial alone and convicted and has sued out a writ of error.

The defense was an alibi. Margaret Halliday, the victim of the crime, testified that she conducted a delicatessen store at No. 1353 West Seventy-ninth street, in Chicago. Mrs. Norman, a colored woman, was in the back room when three men entered the store, one of whom, the plaintiff in error, bought some groceries and handed witness a…