The People v. Kurtz

The defendants, Philip Kurtz, Larry C. Irving and James IT. Grogan, were convicted of the theft of an automobile which a jury in the circuit court of Bond County found to have had a value in excess of $150. Kurtz and Grogan received sentences for terms of not less than five . ■nor more than ten years and Irving for not less than one year nor more than two years.

The defendants appealed to the Appellate Court for the Fifth District and urged inter alia that the State failed to prove that the automobile in question was of a value in excess of $150, and that the trial court had erred in denying…