Read v. People

This is a review of a third trial on an information filed September 30, 1945, charging the defendant with the murder of her nine-month old child, Margaret Karol Read. Within thirty days, trial was had, resulting in a verdict of second degree murder. It is said in the briefs before us in this case, that the trial judge, in granting the motion for a new trial emphatically stated pointed reasons for so doing.

The records of this court in other cases involving circumstances attendant upon this criminal charge clearly indicate that dissatisfaction arose between defendant and the counsel who…