The People v. Tamborski

Stanley Tamborsici (hereinafter called defendant) sued out this writ of error to review a judgment of the criminal court of Cook county wherein he was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury and sentenced to an indeterminate term in the penitentiary. Only two points are briefed and argued by defendant, viz.: (1) That the verdict was against the manifest weight of the evidence; and (2) that the trial court erred in giving certain instructions for the People.

At about eleven o’clock in the evening of August 11, 1932, Nicholas Sokol, Jr., was sitting on the front steps of his father’s house, in…