People v. Marshall

Emmett Marshall and George McCree, defendants herein, were indicted in the criminal court of Cook County for the murder of Anthony Tolliver. They selected their own counsel and waived a trial by jury. They were found guilty and Marshall was sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen years and McCree for fourteen years. At the time of the trial, September, 1946, Marshall was nineteen years old and McCree eighteen. Both join in the writ of error sued out of this court to review the record of their conviction.

The principal contention is that defendants were not proved guilty beyond a reasonable…