Mandella v. State (Two Cases). Fazio V‪.‬

Prosecutions of John Mandella, Jerome Mandella, Louis M. Fazio and Dominic Lampone on informations charging each of them on the first count with the crime of murder in the first degree and on a second count with assault with intent to murder. The informations were issued, after their arrest upon complaint made against them, pursuant to which there was a preliminary hearing in the municipal court of Kenosha county, which resulted in each of them being bound over to the circuit court for said county for trial on informations charging the offenses stated above. In the circuit court John and Jerome Mandella and Dominic Lampone filed pleas in abatement based on the alleged insufficiency of the evidence at the preliminary examination to warrant the filing of said informations. Said pleas were overruled by the court and a review of its order to that effect is sought in connection with defendants writs of error for the review of the judgments finally entered, after a jury trial and verdicts finding all defendants guilty on both charges in the informations, and sentencing each of them to concurrent terms of imprisonment for life for the crime of murder in the first degree, and for one to thirty years for the crime of assault with intent to murder. On their respective writs of error, Fazio seeks a review of the judgment and each of the other defendants seeks review of the orders and judgments against them.