The People v. Johnson

By writ of error, issued pursuant to the provisions■ of former Rule. 65 — 1 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1963, ch. 110, par. 101.65 — 1) defendant, Isiah Johnson, seeks reversal of his 1962 convictions of the crimes of rape and burglary on which he received concurrent sentences of 20 to 50 years and one to 20 years respectively. Judgment in the rape case followed a verdict of guilty by a jury after which it was stipulated by counsel for both sides that the evidence on the burglary charge would be the same as in the rape case. A finding of guilty on the burglary charge was made by the court after a jury…