The People v. Moretti

Plaintiffs in error, Frank Moretti and Carl Moretti, were convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of robbery with a gun and were sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. The robbery occurred at the office of the Druley-O’Brien Coal Company, in Chicago, January 24, 1927, about four o’clock in the morning. Plaintiffs in error were arrested about four months later. They ask a reversal of the judgment because of errors occurring on the trial and on the ground that the evidence does not establish their identity beyond a reasonable doubt.

At the time of the robbery Christ Zimmerman and…