The People v. Minnecci

Leo Minnecci was by a jury in the criminal court of Cook county convicted of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for 199 years. He was tried jointly with Eleanor Jarman and George Dale for murdering Gustav Hoeh, a haberdasher, during an armed daylight robbery of his store. Eleanor. Jarman’s sentence was 199 years and Dale was given the death penalty. As to the latter we affirmed the death sentence in People v. Dale, 355 Ill. 330. Plaintiff in error, Minnecci, was granted leave to withdraw the record in the Dale case and has re-filed it, with a new abstract, in this cause. He does not…