The People v. Sims

Plaintiff in error, after a trial in the criminal court of Cook county, upon an indictment for murder, before the court, a jury having been waived, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to the Illinois Women’s Reformatory at Dwight for a term of years not less than two nor more than four years. She brings this writ of error to review the record, urging, as her main assignment of error, the admissibility in evidence of two statements, designated in the record as exhibits 1 and 4.

Edward J. Porter, a Pullman car porter, about 55 years of age, lived in a room at 6118 South Parkway in the…