People v. Gormach

Plaintiffs in error, Paul E. Gormach, George Spider and Albert Glenz, (hereafter referred to as defendants,) were convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of thirty years. The indictment charged them with murdering Aaron Weinstraub by shooting him with a revolver. When the verdict was returned defendants made motions in arrest and for a new trial, which the court overruled and rendered judgment on the verdict.

It is alleged the State failed to prove the man who was shot and killed was the man charged in the indictment to have been…