The People v. Ryan

James Ryan and William Kinsella were indicted, at the December, 1914, term of the criminal court of Cook county, for the robbery, while armed with a dangerous weapon, of Samuel Dick. A jury found Ryan guilty of the charge in the indictment; his motion for a new trial was denied, and on February 17, 1915, he was sentenced to the penitentiary. Shortly thereafter he began his term of imprisonment and seventeen years later sued out this writ of error for a review of the record.

The evidence introduced by the prosecution tended to show that on November 4, 1914, at about eleven o’clock in the…