The People v. Coniglio

Carlo Coniglio, defendant, was convicted in the circuit court of Morgan county of the murder of Walter Massey and his punishment was fixed at sixteen years in the penitentiary. He brings the record here for review.

Walter Massey was proprietor of a lunch room and filling station, known as the South Side Inn, on the west side of State highway No. 3, about three miles south of the public square in Jacksonville. Between 12:00 o’clock, midnight, on September 23, 1931, and 1 :oo o’clock in the morning of the following day, he was shot and killed in an attempted “hold-up” at the lunch room. The…