The PEOPLE v. Bernatowicz

By consolidated writs of error, the defendant, Edward Bernatowicz, seeks review of two convictions for crimes of armed robbery, and of the dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief in respect of such convictions. Constitutional questions give us jurisdiction.

During the early morning hours of March 4, 1963, Grover C. Elmore, Jr., a clerk on duty at the Presidential Inn Motel, 3922 S. Harlem Avenue, Lyons, Illinois, was held up and robbed of $88 of his employer’s money by a bandit armed with a gun. One week later, at approximately 2:00 A.M. on March 11, 1963, a second robbery…