The People v. Nash

Dana Horton Nash was convicted in the circuit court of Cook County of the murder of John Kilpatrick and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of 99 years to 150 years. We have jurisdiction to directly review this case.

The principal witness against the defendant was William Triplett. Triplett is about 8 years younger than defendant and is the defendant’s nephew. They were both living in Detroit in October, 1961, and he asked to use defendant’s car to drive to Chicago and visit his friends. Triplett testified defendant said that a man named Ralph Polk who works for a union in Chicago wanted…