The People v. Kessler

The grand jury of Cook county indicted Charles Kessler for the voluntary manslaughter of David Smith. Kessler was tried in the criminal court of that county, found guilty by a jury and sentenced to the penitentiary. He prosecutes this writ of error for a review of the record.

David Smith, the decedent, resided with his wife at 1217 West Fourteenth street, in the city of Chicago. Charles Kessler, the plaintiff in error, lived at 1412 Blue Island avenue, in the same city, at which number his parents, Samuel and Ida Kessler, conducted a restaurant. From the prosecution’s evidence it appeared that…