The People v. Fiorita

March 16, 1928, Elmer Baltz, cashier of the First National Bank at Madison, Illinois, was shot and killed by robbers while conveying a package of money from the Madison post-office to the bank. Elmer Etzel and plaintiff in error, Carl Fiorita, were jointly indicted by the grand jury at the May term, 1928, of the circuit court of Madison county. The defendants were tried and found guilty at the October term, 1928, and sentenced to serve a term of fifty years in the Southern Illinois penitentiary. Plaintiff in error, Fiorita, prosecutes this writ of error to review that judgment.

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