The People v. Moses

Frederick Moses, the defendant in this case, was indicted with William Perkins and Edward Gaston in the criminal court of Cook County for the crime of armed robbery. Moses was tried separately. A jui-y found him guilty and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than ten nor more than twenty years. The case is here on writ of error.

The principal issue at the trial was the identity of Moses as a participant in a tavern hold-up on September 11, 1953. The proprietor of the tavern, one of his employees, and one of the dozen or so patrons who were there at the…