The People v. Herbert

Earl Herbert was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for assault with intent to murder Judson B. Seaman. A jury trial resulted in a verdict of guilty and a sentence of imprisonment in the penitentiary followed. The defendant prosecutes this writ of error for a review of the record.

On January 31, 1927, Judson B. Seaman was a police officer employed by the Pere Marquette Railroad Company. About 7:45 P. M. on that day, while aboard a train carrying merchandise and as the train was passing through the railroad yard near State and Eighty-seventh streets, in the city of Chicago, he…