The People v. Bruno

This cause is here on writ of error to review a judgment of the criminal court of Cook county dismissing a petition of plaintiff in error, Tony Bruno, in the nature of a writ of error coram nobis.

On the 24th of August, 1930, the grand jury of Cook county returned an indictment in the criminal court of Cook county charging that on the 24th of August, 1930, plaintiff in error, being armed with a pistol, put Mark Chester in bodily fear and by the use of force and intimidation took from him 200 cartons of cigarettes which were the property of the United Cigar Stores of America. Plaintiff in error…