People v. Connelly

The defendant, John Aloysius Connelly, was, on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1924, by an indictment returned against him by the grand jury of the county of Yuba, this state, accused of the crime of murder, alleged to have been committed by him in said county of Yuba on or about the sixth day of February, 1922, by unlawfully and premeditately taking the life of one Francis Heenan. The defendant was indicted under the name of Joe Kelly, alias John Connelly, but at the trial he claimed his true name to be as first above stated.

In due time he was placed upon trial for said crime and the jury…