People v. Santini

The defendant was one of seven men jointly indicted for manslaughter in the first degree. The defendants were charged with having assaulted the deceased. The assault is alleged to have been made with a paving brick and to have resulted in injuries which caused death.

The People’s evidence showed that while the deceased was proceeding along the street with his eight-year-old son, he was attacked by two men. He ran to effect escape, but was surrounded near a brick pile, which stood partly in the roadway and partly on the curb in front of a building in the course of construction. At this point…