People v. McCullough

Mr. Presiding Justice O’Connor

delivered the opinion of the court.

September 25, 1939, an information was filed charging that Henderson McCullough, defendant, September 5, 1939, maliciously assaulted Fred Tucker with a pistol.

The record discloses that September 25, 1939, the matter came on for hearing before Judge Frank M. Padden, of the municipal court of Chicago, and on that day an order was entered which recites that Fred Tucker, in the name of the People, presented to the court an information under oath and moved the court that leave be granted to file the information; “and the presiding…