Romero v. State

At 2 o’clock in the morning of January 21,1917, Cornelius E. Cross, watchman of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company, was shot and killed when he was attempting to arrest three men whom he then dis-covered in the act of robbing a car which they had broken and entered. The defendant (plaintiff in error) was one of the three men. In his brief it is stated: “The theory of the defense, supported by evidence, was that defendant was present unwillingly; that he had no gun; that he was anxious to go home; and that he ran away as long as five minutes before Cross was shot.” It…