The People v. Gambino

The defendant, appearing pro se, seeks review of the judgment of the criminal court of Cook County sentencing him, under the Habitual Criminal Act, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1953, chap. 38, par. 602,) to life imprisonment in the penitentiary after a jury had found him guilty of the crime of armed robbery and that he had theretofore, under the name of Louis Stamos, been convicted of burglary and confined in the penitentiary for that offense.

The defendant contends that the trial court erred in admitting incompetent and prejudicial evidence which established the commission of other crimes for which he…