The People v. McMahon

Earl McMahon, also known as Jimmie Glennon, was arrested and indicted for the crime of possessing a machine gun. He waived a jury trial and was found guilty by the criminal court of Cook county and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of from one to ten years. By this writ of error he seeks reversal of the judgment, urging that the statutory elements of the crime, relating to the description of the machine gun and his possession thereof, were not proved by competent evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

In May, 1933, McMahon became a roomer and boarder in the home of George Nischwitz, in…