The People v. Smaszcz

An indictment was returned in the criminal court of Cook county against the plaintiff in error which charged him with unlawfully making an assault upon Nora Moriarty with an automobile which he was unlawfully and negligently running and operating upon a public street of the city of Chicago and with striking and running over her with the automobile and giving to her divers mortal wounds, of which she died. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary and has sued out a writ of error.

Plaintiff in error contends that the evidence does not sustain the…