The People v. Holderfield

Plaintiff in error, Harry Holderfield, together with Roy Riddle, John Castleman and Ira Newton, was indicted by the grand jury of the circuit court of Franklin county, on November 23, 1936, for the crime of robbery while armed with a gun. D. F. Moore, an attorney of said court, was appointed by the court to represent him, and on a trial before a jury the defendant was found guilty of robbery with a gun. Motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment were made and denied, and on June 10, 1937,.he was sentenced to the Illinois State Penitentiary at Menard for a term of years not less than the…