The People v. Allen

This writ of error is prosecuted to review the record of the plaintiff in error’s conviction in the criminal court of Cook county for violating the Motor Fuel Tax law. (Laws of 1929, p. 625.) The indictment returned contained seventeen counts, the last of which was nollied on the trial. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the other sixteen counts, and the court sentenced the defendant on each of the first six counts to pay a fine of $500 and to be imprisoned six months in the house of correction of the city of Chicago, the sentences to run consecutively, and on each of the remaining…