The People v. Toohey

William Toohey was convicted and sentenced by the circuit court of Kankakee county to imprisonment in the penitentiary for the crime of manslaughter.

On December 10, 1924, Albert W. Cyrier, while crossing Court street, in the city of Kankakee, near its intersection with Indiana avenue, was struck by an automobile and so injured that he died shortly thereafter. Court street at the place of the accident is sixty-eight feet wide and in one of the principal business districts of the city of Kankakee. It runs east and west and is crossed at right angles by Indiana avenue, running north and south.…