The People v. Gentile

James Gentile was convicted of robbery while armed with a deadly weapon and prosecutes this writ of error. He was indicted jointly with Joseph Leopold, Thomas Shupe, William White and James Sammon. Leopold was granted a separate trial and the other defendants were tried together. Shupe and Gentile were convicted and White and Sammon were acquitted.

The robbery occurred at noon on March 5, 1926, at the office of the tractor works of the International Harvester Company, in Chicago. The tractor works pay-roll for that day, in bills, silver, nickels and pennies, amounting to $80,421.47, had been…