The People v. Gilday

Daniel L. Gilday was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for an assault with a revolver upon Herman Knol with intent to murder him. Upon a trial by a jury he was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, and he prosecutes this writ of error from the judgment.

It is claimed that the indictment should have been quashed because it did not allege by what means the assault was committed; that the court erred in allowing a peremptory challenge of two jurors by the prosecution, in admitting evidence that the defendant shot and wounded the prosecuting witness, and in…