People v. Polenik

The defendant, Raymond Polenik, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook County for the crime of murder. He was tried by a jury and found guilty, and his punishment fixed at death. He prosecutes this writ of error to review the proceedings, assigning as error alleged misconduct of the State’s Attorney and the trial judge; the admission of allegedly incompetent and prejudicial testimony; the giving of certain instructions to the jury and the refusal to give others tendered by plaintiff in error; the refusal to suppress evidence taken from his home without a search warrant; the admission in…