People v. Battaglia

The plaintiff in error, August Battaglia, shot with a revolver and killed Philip Caruso on March 23, 1916, in front of the grocery store of Thomas D’Amico, at 188 East Twenty-second street, the business center of the Italian and Polish settlement in the city of Chicago Heights, and was indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter in the criminal court of Cook county.

The defendant and Philip Caruso were each in the fruit and vegetable business in Chicago Heights. Early in the morning of March 23 the defendant went to the warehouse of Battaglia Bros., a firm of which he was a member,…