Legal Opinion

The People v. Goldvarg

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided December 17, 1931No. 20982. Judgment affirmedPublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Chiep Justice Stone

delivered the opinion of the court :

Plaintiffs in error, Harry Goldvarg and Jacob Tat elman, together with one Jack Rossow, Martin Borad and Louis Footlik, were indicted for the murder of Jerome Israelson, a child, by the commission of an unlawful act and while engaged in the prosecution thereof with felonious intent, which act and its consequences tended to destroy life, in that they feloniously and maliciously caused to be burned a certain building in which said Jerome. Israelson then was, causing his death by burning and suffocation. Plaintiffs in error pleaded not…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Mayes v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1883
  2. The People v. KrotzIllinois Supreme Court · 1930

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. People v. AaronMichigan Supreme Court · 1980
  2. Commonwealth v. MatchettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
  3. Jenkins v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 1967
  4. Farmer v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1956
  5. State v. StreetonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1949

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