People Wasn't Made to Burn by Joe Allen

Author:Joe Allen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2011-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

On August 1, 1947, the Cook County Grand Jury ruled that James Hickman with “malice aforethought by shooting did kill and murder David Coleman contrary to the Statute, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Illinois.” Cook County state’s attorney Touhy signed the indictment and soon after announced that Samuel Freeman, one of his most experienced prosecutors, would lead the case.

According to the Illinois Criminal Code of the time,

Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, in the peace of the people, with malice aforethought, either expressed or implied. The unlawful killing may be perpetrated by poisoning, striking, starving, drowning, stabbing, shooting, or by any other of the various forms or means by which human nature may be overcome, and death thereby occasioned. Express malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a fellow creature, which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof. Malice shall be implied when no considerable provocation appears, or when all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.

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