People v. Caldwell

A jury found the defendant, C. B. Caldwell, guilty of murder and the trial judge sentenced him to the penitentiary for a term of fifty to one hundred years.

He was indicted for the murder of Bessie Mae Woods in Cook County, Illinois, and he contends that either his conviction should be reversed because the indictment was defective in not specifying the place of the offense, or that he should be given a new trial because (1) the court failed to give a manslaughter instruction; (2) the prosecutor’s closing argument was prejudicial; (3) his confession was obtained under circumstances which…