The People v. Kozlowski

A jury in the criminal court of Cook county found John Kozlowski and Walter Boreman guilty of robbery while armed with a gun. Kozlowski has sued out this writ of error to review the judgment of conviction and sentence. Elmer Swanson, who was indicted with them, was granted a separate trial and entered a plea of guilty. This defendant also moved for a severance for the reasons that his two co-defendants were charged with being habitual criminals, and that the respective defenses were antagonistic. He also claimed that the other two had made statements tending to incriminate him, and that he…