The People v. Wilson

Defendant, Willie Wilson, was found guilty of burglary in 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 ten years. On this writ of error he contends that the indictment was fatally defective, that, the trial court erred in considering evidence offered in the separate trial of a codefendant, and that the evidence did not establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Defendant was indicted jointly with three other men for burglary of an auto repair shop in Chicago on June 3, i960. Wilson and two of his…