The People v. Twigg

Plaintiff in error urges that the court erred in passing sentence upon him for a period of from one to twenty years because it constitutes the same sentence as is fixed by law for the theft of an automobile; and second, that the judgment should have been as for a conviction of grand larceny, in which case the penalty provided by statute is imprisonment for from one to ten years.

The identical point raised by the second assignment in this case was considered in People v. Justat, 389 Ill. 138, where we held that where certain counts of an-indictment charged a defendant with larceny of an…