The People v. Mangano

Jerry Mangano, Joseph Russano, and Italo Begani were indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the murder of Harry Francois, a policeman. Russano and Begani secured a severance. A jury found Mangano guilty and imposed the death penalty. This writ of error was issued to review the record as to Mangano.

About 10:30 on the evening of November 20, 1939, Theodore Nelson and a woman companion were sitting in his automobile parked in the vicinity of Humboldt Park in Chicago when'Mangano appeared on the left side of the automobile and Russano and Begani on the right. All were armed and they…