The People v. Waitches

The defendant, Julius P. Waitches, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county, with several other persons, for conspiracy, some of the counts charging the object of the unlawful conspiracy to be a forging of the purported will of James Thomas Kelly, to the injury of the estate of said James Thomas Kelly, and with the intent to defraud that estate, and two other counts charging a conspiracy to do an act injurious to the administration of public justice by the same means. The defendant was tried alone, and his conviction having been sustained by the Appellate Court, he prosecutes this…