The People v. Gerdy

The defendant, Sam Gerdy, was by the verdict of a jury in the criminal court of Cook county found guilty of the crime of robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon and sentenced to the penitentiary. He brings the record here for review on writ of error.

Edna Hotchkiss testified that she was a high school teacher; that she entered the First National Bank of Englewood shortly before 1 :oo o’clock P. M. on September 6, 1934, for the purpose of cashing fourteen checks representing back pay due her as a teacher; that during about a ten-minute period, while she was endorsing the checks at a desk…