Seiwald v. People

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Teller.

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was convicted of murder in the second degree, and brings error.

He was tried under an information charging him with murder in the first degree, in the killing of one Lloyd. The people relied upon evidence to show that the killing was done in an attempt to rob. Defendant had been previously tried upon an information charging him and one Cook with murder in the first degree, in the killing of officer McPherson, in an attempt to rob. The first trial resulted in the conviction of Cook of murder in the first degree,…