People v. Wright

The defendant, William Wright, was tried by the court without a jury in the municipal court of Chicago and was found guilty of the crime of unlawful possession of narcotic drugs. The judgment of conviction was affirmed by the Appellate Court for the First District (25 Ill. App. 2d 474,) and the case is now here on a writ of error issued by this court.

The undisputed evidence showed that William Sullivan, a Chicago police officer, appeared before a judge of the municipal court of Chicago at about 11 :oo in the morning of October 1, 1956, and signed the information upon which defendant was later…