People v. Kuhn

The plaintiffs in error, Constantine Kuhn and William Wilson, were convicted and sentenced in the criminal court of Cook county under the first count of an indictment which charged them with assault with intent to rob Adam Streit.

Adam Streit on April iy, 1919, had a grocery and market at 4422 Shields avenue, in Chicago, and about ten o’clock in the morning of that day was sitting with his back towards the door reading a newspaper, when the door was opened and somebody ordered “Hands up!” He turned around and confronted two men with their faces blackened and one of them pointing a revolver at…