The People v. Gruhl

Plaintiff in error, Ernest Gruhl, was convicted, in the municipal court of Chicago, of the crime of contributing to the delinquency of a child. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the House of Correction for a period of one year. The Appellate Court affirmed the judgment and sentence of the municipal court and the case is now in this court on a writ of error.

Only the common-law record is before us and the two questions raised and argued in the briefs are: (1) that the municipal court was without jurisdiction to enter the judgment and sentence because there was no counsel appointed to defend…