The PEOPLE v. Harrison

James Harrison was convicted in the criminal court of Cook County by bench trial of the unlawful sale and possession of narcotic drugs, and was sentenced to a term of from ten to fifteen years in the Illinois State Penitentiary. On this writ of error he contends the People failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant sold a narcotic drug, and that the court erred in receiving a chemist’s report into evidence.

The alleged sale of narcotics took place on December 1, 1958, in Harrison’s apartment in Chicago. At about 1:3o P.M., Joseph Arpaio, a Federal narcotics agent, accompanied…