The People v. Humphreys

Murray Humphreys was arrested without a warrant by Chicago police officers on November 1, 1932. At the time of his arrest he was standing in a corridor outside the door to an office on the fourteenth floor of No. 1 North LaSalle street, in Chicago, and was committing no offense. He was in the company of Charles Fischetti, for whom a vagrancy warrant had been issued by Judge Lyle in 1930Í After Humphreys was. arrested he whs searched and a loaded automatic pistol was found beneath his vest. He was later charged, tried and convicted by a jury in the municipal court of Chicago of the offense of…