People v. Cohen

delivered-the opinion of the court:

Isadore Cohen was tried in the criminal court of Cook county upon an indictment charging him with assault with intent to kill and murder Joseph Kleiman. There was a verdict of guilty, on which judgment was entered sentencing him to the penitentiary, and the record has been brought to this court as a return to a writ of error.

On January 29, 1921, Nathan Salintzky kept a restaurant at 831 Maxwell street, in Chicago. In the evening of that day he met the defendant, Isadore Cohen, and wife, at Fourteenth and Morgan streets, and an altercation of some kind arose…