The PEOPLE v. Lewis

The defendant, Willie Lee Lewis, together with Harold Washington, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook County on a charge of unlawfully and willfully selling a certain narcotic drug, heroin, to George Robinson, Jr., on January 9, 1959. The defendant pleaded not guilty. He was tried before the court, found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than twelve years. His sole contention here is that the trial court erred in failing to find that he had been entrapped.

On the morning of January 8, 1959, the defendant, who was in a lounge at the Cyril Hotel in…