People v. Rogers

Plaintiff in error and Joseph Eagan were convicted in the criminal court of Cook county on a one-count indictment for robbery, by the use of a gun. They were impleaded with Charles Conroy, Walter Buckley and Charles Olson. Only Rogers, Eagan and Conroy were tried in this trial, Conroy being acquitted. The charge in the indictment is, in substance, that they committed the crime of robbery with a gun on Louis Plomgren on February 25, 1921, and by force and violence took from his person and carried away money to the value of $8571, the property of the Western Newspaper Union, a corporation,…