The People v. Winn

This writ of error was granted to review a judgment of the criminal court of Cook county by which John Walton Winn was adjudged guilty of murder and sentenced to death.

Soon after 6:3o o’clock in the morning of December 30, 1925, John Pluskota on his way to work found the dead body of a man lying in the snow on the west side of Brandon avenue near Ninety-fourth street. The police were called and removed the body to Brown’s morgue, where it was identified as that of Albert Nusbaum. In the forenoon of the same day Elizabeth Nusbaum, Albert’s wife, was arrested at their son’s house, and Délila…