People v. Gleason

Defendants were charged with larceny of a $125 suit from the Skokie store, of Marshall Field & Company on April 30,1960. A jury found them guilty and fixed their punishment at fines of $100 each and imprisonment of six months for Thomas Gleason and four months for Helen Gleason. From judgment and sentences based on the verdicts, defendants have prosecuted this writ of error.

In the course of testimony by state witnesses concerning commission of the offense of April 30, evidence was admitted over timely objections that defendants had also participated in a somewhat similar theft three weeks…