The People v. Tobin

Defendant, John J. Tobin, was convicted of manslaughter in the criminal court of Cook county. A jury was waived and the cause was tried before the court. The errors relied upon for reversal are that the corpus delicti was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt, that the homicide was excusable as by misadventure, and that defendant’s guilt was not proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

The evidence is that about 11 :oo o’clock on the evening of March 5, 1937, Joseph Burrage, the deceased, and Carrie Thompson, got into a Yellow Cab driven by defendant Tobin at Thirty-third street and Indiana avenue,…