The People v. Irwin

Defendant was convicted of burglary after a jury trial held in the then criminal court of Cook County and sentenced to a term of not less than 10 nor more than 20 years in the penitentiary. He prosecutes this appeal from the conviction, alleging that certain constitutional infirmities warrant a reversal.

The testimony indicates that the Bower Photocopy Service in Chicago was broken into sometime between November 25 and November 27, 1959. Missing from the store on the latter date were a checkwriter, artists’ materials, an air brush, 35 checks marked "Bower Photocopy Company” and numerous other…