The People v. Reck

Plaintiff in error, Emil Reck, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the crime of murder. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of 199 years and the cause is now before us on a writ of error.

We have only the common-law record and the briefs present no statement of errors as required by Rule 39 of this court. The assignment of errors appears only as a part of the abstract of the record. It has been announced by this court many times that the purpose of Rule 39, requiring a statement of the errors relied upon as the concluding paragraph of the…