People v. Jackson

Plaintiff in error, Hollis Jackson, was indicted by the grand jury in St. Clair County for the crime of robbery. He was arraigned, tried before a jury and found guilty, and prosecutes his writ of error to this court upon the common-law record.

While several points are made they all converge' upon the form of the judgment entered by the court after a motion for new trial had been overruled. The judgment arid sentence of the court was as follows: “The sentence of the Court is that the defendant Hollis Jackson be confined in the Illinois State Penitentiary for an indeterminate term of not less…