The People v. Yetter

August 4, 1930, the defendant, Harry Yetter, otherwise known as Harry Getter, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the murder of John G. Guiltanane on July 18, 1930. A jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. Yetter prosecutes this writ of error.

Defendant, now incarcerated in the penitentiary at Joliet, appears pro se. He has filed a bill of exceptions certified by the trial judge on October 19, 1931. The certification, in the usual form, recites that it contains a correct and complete verbatim stenographer’s report of all the…