The People v. Sheppard

Plaintiff in error, James R. Sheppard, was tried before the judge without a jury in the criminal court of Cook County and convicted of the crime of assault with intent to kill and murder William Leahy, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than three years nor more than five years. He prosecutes this writ of error.

Numerous errors have been assigned, all of which question the sufficiency of the evidence to support the judgment of conviction. It should be noted that we have at this term of court reviewed another judgment of conviction against plaintiff in error, wherein he…