The People v. Bentley

Plaintiff in error was tried on an indictment in the circuit court of Livingston county for the murder of Aldine Younger, alleged to have been committed on March 1, 1933. He was convicted of manslaughter and sues out this writ of error to review that judgment.

Inasmuch as the case must be decided upon its facts it will be necessary to state them with some particularity.

The body of the deceased was found lying in a pool of blood on the concrete pavement on Route 116, about three and one-half miles west of Pontiac, Illinois, in the early morning of March 1, 1933. Death had been instantaneous and…