People v. Johnson

Plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the murder of Martin Corcoran, a police officer, in the city of Chicago, and his' punishment fixed at death.

It is not denied plaintiff in error shot Corcoran June 6, 1.917, inflicting a wound from which he died about two months later. On that day, about two o’clock in the afternoon, the plaintiff in error and another man were passing along Broadway, in the city of Chicago, where that street is crossed by Waveland avenue. They had a suitcase and a basket in their possession. A residence in that neighborhood…