The PEOPLE v. Beamon

Don Beamon, Lawrence Smallwood and LeRoy Sullivan were indicted jointly for armed robbery in the criminal court of Cook County. Smallwood pleaded guilty. Beamon and Sullivan were tried together, and were found guilty by a jury. Beamon was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than ten years nor more than life, and he brings this writ of error to review his conviction. His sole contention is that the trial court erred in denying his petition for a change of venue.

The defendants were indicted on November 3, 1958. On November 21, 1958, they were arraigned before the chief justice of…