The People v. Haiges

Plaintiff in error seeks the reversal of a judgment of the criminal court of Cook county finding him guilty of manslaughter. An indictment in five’ counts charged him with making an assault upon the body of one Margaret Baine, with a truck, causing her death. Upon a trial before the court, a jury having been waived, he was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than fourteen years.

Plaintiff in error, a layman, appears pro se and has filed but a part of the common law record. He urges, first, that the indictment is defective in the forms…