People v. Cramer

Plaintiff in error, William J. Cramer, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the crime of robbery and was sentenced to the penitentiary. The record has been brought to this court by writ of error.

The indictment charged that the defendant with a deadly weapon robbed George Gunkel of $26, lawful money of the United States, and that a robbery was committed was proved. Gunkel was the owner and in charge of a building at 3800 Armitage avenue, in Chicago, in which he had conducted a saloon, but which had become a restaurant and soft drink parlor, and at 11 ¡35 in the night of…