People v. Stewart

The defendant, Arthur Stewart, was found guilty of robbery after a bench trial in the Criminal Court of Cook County and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than two nor more than five years. In his appeal defendant urges that because of deficiencies and discrepancies in his identification coupled with “the inaccurate and imperfect memory of the trial court as to what the testimony had been,” a reasonable doubt exists as to his guilt.

The only witness to the crime, Mrs. Corrine Freeman, testified that at about 7:45 p. m. on January 5, 1963, she was in the lighted vestibule…