People v. Provo

Plaintiff in error, .Mark Provo, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook County, of the crime of murder, the victim being his wife, Norma Lucille Provo. He was tried before a jury, found guilty of murder as charged in the indictment, his punishment being fixed at ninety-nine years in the penitentiary. After motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled, he was sentenced on the verdict.

The record discloses the following facts: The defendant, on Saturday, September 25, 1948, the day of the-homicide, was twenty-four years of age…