The People v. Burns

Plaintiff in error, Burns, was convicted and sentenced in the criminal court of Cook County for the crime of robbery while armed. He appears here pro se on a writ of error with only the common-law record.

He believes the indictment should, under the law, have contained a specific designation of the place of the robbery as supposedly required by section 9 of the bill of rights, (Const. 1870, art. II, sec. 9,) which requires, “* * * the accused shall have the right * * * to demand the nature and cause of the accusation * * He believes the claimed lack of such vitiates the case from inception to…