The PEOPLE v. Gates

Langdon Gates, hereinafter called defendant, was indicted jointly with Ronald Hansen and Victor Spilotro for the crimes of receiving stolen property and conspiracy to receive stolen property. After trial without a jury the criminal court of Cook County found them guilty, and each was sentenced to the penitentiary for one to five years under each of several counts of the indictment, the sentences to run concurrently. Hansen and Spilotro prosecuted writs of error for review, and after consolidating the two cases this court affirmed the convictions. (People v. Hansen, 28 Ill.2d 322.) Gates has…