Kelly v. People

Joseph Kelly, at the January term, 1884, was tried by a jury in the Criminal Court of Cook county, for burglary, the indictment containing a count setting forth a former conviction, at the July term, 1882, of said Kelly, for robbery. He was found guilty of burglary, and the jury, under instruction of the court, fixed his punishment at fourteen years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The court sentenced him accordingly.

Several questions are raised with respect to the act respecting conviction upon second and third offences, approved June 23, 1883. (Laws 1883, p. 76.) That act, in its first…