The People v. Streich

The defendant, Frances Streich, plaintiff in error, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the crime of larceny by embezzlement and sentenced to the State Reformatory for Women at Dwight for a term of from one to ten years. She was indicted and tried jointly with Marion Leighton. The jury was waived. She prosecutes this separate writ of error.

The third count of the indictment, under which the defendant was found guilty, charges that Marion Leighton and Frances Streich on May 17, 1933, as agents in the employ of Cora J. Clark, fraudulently and feloniously, and without her…