People v. Klein

Plaintiff in error was convicted of the murder of Leo E. Neumann. The circuit court of DuPage county entered judgment on the verdict, sentencing plaintiff in error to the State penitentiary for a period of fourteen years. The cause is brought here for review.

The killing is admitted. The only question of fact in the case is whether it was accidental or whether under circumstances showing it to have been murder.

About 8:30 o’clock on Sunday evening, September 25, 1921, the deceased, his wife and daughter, with Gust Vorreyer and his wife, were riding east in a one-seated runabout automobile on…