The PEOPLE v. Johnson

Howard Johnson, herein referred to as defendant, prosecutes this writ of error to review his conviction of the crime of murder in the criminal court of Cook County. Defendant was tried before a jury, with one Robert Vance, for the murder of one Robert Taylor. Robert Vance was acquitted and defendant was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary.

It appears from the record that on December 23, 1955, at about 12 :i5 A.M., a cab was found at 151 Swan Street, in the city of Chicago with a man lying slumped over the wheel dead, who was the Robert Taylor alleged to have been…