People v. Pizzino

In April, 1931, Leo Cellura, Angelo Livecchi, and defendant Theodore Pizzino were indicted by a grand jury for the murder of one William Cannon on July 3,1930. Livecchi and defendant Pizzino were arrested and on jury trial in June, 1931, were convicted of second-degree murder. Their motion for a nevr trial was denied,1 and they were sentenced to life imprisonment. Cellura was not apprehended until 1936, and he was thereafter tried, convicted of first-degree murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment. On appeal his conviction was affirmed. People v. Cellura, 288 Mich. 54.. In 1940, having…