People v. Stapleton

Patrick T. Stapleton, plaintiff in error, was indicted by the grand jury of Cook county for the murder of John Walsh. Upon a trial in the criminal court there was a verdict finding him guilty and fixing his punishment at confinement for twenty years in the State penitentiary at Joliet, and judgment was entered on the-verdict.

After midnight of October 11, 1919, the defendant, with John Walsh and others, was in a saloon at Forty-fifth street and Wentworth avenue, in Chicago. There was á quarrel there between some of them about change left on the bar in paying for drinks. It was one o’clock in…