The PEOPLE v. Smith

A jury in the circuit court of Rock Island County found he defendant, Neil Merle Smith, guilty of burglary and e was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less lan 5 nor more than 10 years. On this appeal he contends (1) that the use at his trial of his unsigned statement, which was made after he had been arrested and released on bail, deprived him of his right to counsel in violation of the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States, and (2) that his conviction should be reversed because the transcript of the proceedings at his trial which was…