People v. Cassesse

This suit was begun by writ of error to the criminal court of Cook county requiring the record of the conviction of the plaintiffs in error, Frank Cassesse and Giuseppe Cassesse, of the crime of manslaughter by killing Salvatore Manno, to be certified to this court for review.

Manno was shot by Frank Cassesse with a revolver on August 28, 1910, but did not die until October 6, 1910. He made a written declaration at a hospital on September 1, 1910, which the court admitted in evidence against the objection of the defendants. The evidence upon which the statement was admitted consisted of the…