People v. Trammell

In a trial by jury the defendant was convicted of burglary and sentenced to four to ten years in the state penitentiary. He contends that the indictment was insufficient, that the goods allegedly stolen were illegally seized, that inadmissible evidence was allowed to show his ownership of a car in which the stolen goods were found and that the evidence does not prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

On the night of September 25, 1963, Ruth Johnson accompanied by her friend Wendell Jones, a Chicago police officer, drove to her place of employment, a barber shop owned by Booker Cook at 7706…