The People v. Nicholson

On January 16, 1942, plaintiff in error, Robert Nicholson, was indicted in the circuit court of Winnebago County, under the provisions of section 92 of division I of the Criminal Code, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 38, par. 228,) for the crime of aiding, abetting and assisting one Wayne Palmer to escape from the county jail of Winnebago County, on December 30, 1941, while the said Palmer stood convicted for the crime of robbery and was under sentence to the penitentiary. Plaintiff in error was not apprehended until February 4, 1948, and immediately thereafter was tried by a jury which found…