The People v. Gerke

Plaintiff in error, Leo Gerke, on January 28, 1927, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for robbery with a dangerous weapon, and on February 4, 1927, he entered a plea of not guilty to this indictment. On July 12, 1927, by leave of court he withdrew his plea of not guilty, and, the State’s attorney having waived the “gun count,” entered his plea of guilty to “robbery without a gun, in manner and form as charged in the indictment.” Judgment was entered on the plea of guilty and plaintiff in error sentenced to an indeterminate term of imprisonment in the reformatory at Pontiac. To…