The People v. Maloney

Plaintiff in error seeks review of a judgment of conviction against him in the criminal court of Cook county on an indictment charging him with manslaughter. The charge is that on August 18, 1937, the defendant wantonly, recklessly and negligently so operated his automobile as to strike and kill a four-year-old boy named Freddie Fincher.

The substance of the testimony of the People’s witnesses tends to establish that on the evening of August 18, 1937, at about 8:3o, “daylight saving” time, the defendant, while driving east on Fifth avenue, in the city of Chicago, drove without stopping and at…