The People v. Capoldi

This is a writ of error to the criminal court of Cook County to' review a judgment finding Andrew Capoldi, hereinafter called the defendant, to be a criminal sexual psychopath.

The record discloses that on November 20, 1936, the defendant was indicted for the murder of a five-year-old Chicago girl, but that at a pretrial sanity hearing, he was adjudged feebleminded and committed by the court to the Illinois Security Hospital. Thereafter, the indictment was stricken with leave to reinstate and nO' further action was taken until October, 1953, at which time the murder indictment was reinstated…