The People v. Atkinson

Plaintiff in error, George Atkinson, was tried in the criminal court of Cook county by the court without a jury on two indictments and found guilty in each case on a count which charged larceny of an automobile and a prior conviction of robbery. He was sentenced in each case under the provisions of the Habitual Criminal act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1939, chap. 38, par. 602) for a period of twenty years, the sentences to run concurrently. After serving more than eight years of the sentences, plaintiff in error brings the common law record of each case here for review. He contends the judgments are…