The People v. Watt

Plaintiffs in error Willie Watt, Melvin King, William Butler and James Goodwin were indicted for the crime of murder, and upon trial by a judge of the criminal court of Cook county, without a jury, convicted and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary. They prosecute a writ of error to this court.

The facts are substantially as follows: December 13, 1940, Isaac MacEachin, a clerk in a store located at No. 4120 Calumet avenue, Chicago, Illinois, was shot and killed while three of the defendants were in the room, and another waiting outside in the street. The proof tends to show the four…