The People v. Del Veawgo

Plaintiff in error, Larrie L. Del Veawgo, in October, 1943, was found guilty of robbery unarmed, by the criminal court of Cook County in a trial by the court without a jury. The indictment contained counts for both armed and unarmed robbery, and also charged he had previously, in 1928, been convicted of the crime of robbery and sentenced to the penitentiary. After the court found him guilty in this case and overruled a motion for new trial, he was sentenced to the Illinois State Penitentiary for a period of twenty years. The case is submitted to this court on the common-law record, there…