The People v. Flanagan

Lewis Flanagan was indicted in the circuit court of Massac county for the involuntary manslaughter of Henry C. Walters. The jury found him guilty and after his motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were denied he was sentenced to the penitentiary. He prosecutes this writ of error for a review of the record.

Henry C. Walters, seventy years of age, resided in the city of Metropolis, in Massac county. He operated a gristmill, cut wood and gathered mussel from the Ohio river. After his day’s work was done he collected, by means of a push-cart, garbage which he fed to his hogs and…