The People v. Shepard

Albert O. Shepard and Cecil Strong were indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for obtaining money by means of the confidence game. They were tried by the court without a jury, found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary, and they prosecute this writ of error.

Edward Hemmelgarn, the prosecuting witness, Albert O. Shepard and Cecil Strong, thirty-six, twenty-six and twenty-eight years of age respectively, are all residents of Chicago. Hemmelgarn, while standing at a street corner in that city on the afternoon of February 17, 1933, was approached by Strong, a stranger, who made an…