The People v. Sikes

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county on the charge of manslaughter and brings the cause here for review.

The first count of the indictment charged that plaintiff in error feloniously and unlawfully made an assault upon the body of Charles Rechsteiner with an automobile, which he unlawfully and recklessly ran upon the public street, by reason of which assault Rechsteiner was killed. Under the statute involuntary manslaughter is the killing of a human being “without any intent to do so, in the commission of an unlawful act, or a lawful act, which probably might…