The People v. Vitale

Ten separate indictments for murder were returned by the Cook county grand jury against the three defendants, Frank Vitale, Joseph Vitale and Joseph DeChiara.' Each charged them with the murder of one certain person (ten in all) not named in any of the other nine indictments. Each indictment charged the felonious burning of a dwelling on September 29, 1935, owned and occupied by the deceased, and that his death resulted from such unlawful burning. The defendant Joseph Vitale pleaded guilty to all indictments and was sentenced on each to 199 years in the penitentiary, the sentences to run…