People v. Gardiner

This writ of error is prosecuted to review a judgment of the criminal court of Cook county finding plaintiff in error guilty of manslaughter and committing him to the penitentiary

The evidence shows that plaintiff in error was in the office of one Welsh, a postal employee, in the afternoon of January 27, 1920; that Welsh had a revolver in his office; that plaintiff in error took the revolver and put it in his coat pocket; that he went from the office of Welsh to 3035 Indiana avenue, Chicago; that five or six physicians occupied a suite of offices at this number and that plaintiff in error…