The People v. Mulcahy

Plaintiff in error (hereinafter called defendant) was indicted, tried and convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to an indeterminate term in the penitentiary.

Defendant was a uniformed police officer of the city of Chicago patrolling a beat on Sixty-third street. On December 31, 1923, he went on patrol duty at eight o’clock in the evening and patrolled his beat until four o’clock A. M., January 1, 1924. In the course of his duty on this night, as upon previous nights, by direction of his superior officer he visited a Chinese-American restaurant…