Hughes v. Kiley

A joint preliminary hearing was had before the Honorable Maurice D. Pompey, judge of the circuit court of Cook County, on criminal complaints against defendants-petitioners James Hughes and Darnell Nash charging each with the offense of murder. The State’s, evidence consisted of the testimony of a homicide investigator of the Chicago Police Department concerning conversations he had participated in with several persons including defendants and the admission as exhibits of written statements allegedly taken from the defendants. Defendants’ counsel cross-examined the investigator and refrained…