The People v. Palmer

Defendant, L. C. Palmer, otherwise called Henry Palmer and Andrew Clinton, was indicted by the Cook County grand jury for the crimes of burglary and receiving and concealing stolen property. He was tried by the court without a jury, found guilty of burglary, and was sentenced to a term of from 1 to 4 years in the Illinois State Penitentiary.

By writ of error defendant seeks reversal, and assigns as error that the evidence was wholly insufficient to support the finding and judgment of the court, and that there was a fatal variance between the indictment and the proof. Alternatively, he seeks a…