People v. Miles

Mr. Presiding Justice O’Connor

delivered the opinion of the court.

December 12, 1936, an information was filed against defendant, Wesley Miles, in which he was charged with., unlawfully having in his possession a certain habit- forming drug known as heroin, without having a written prescription, in violation of sec. 158, ch. 91, Ill. State Bar Stats. 1935; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 88.23(2). On the same day, leave to file the petition was allowed and the case was heard by the court, a jury having been waived. Defendant was arraigned and plead guilty.

The record recites that the court then heard…