The People v. Flaherty

Plaintiff in error, Flaherty, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the robbery of one Robert Cecil Rumbold. The jury found that he had also, in 1922, been convicted of grand larceny. He was sentenced to the penitentiary for his natural life. He was jointly indicted with others charged with having been participants in the crime, but secured a separate trial and at the time of his trial in this case his coindictees had not been tried.

It appears that on January 19, 1945, shortly after 8 o’clock in the evening, Robert Cecil Rumbold,…