The People v. Washington

Plaintiff in error, a colored man, was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary, in the circuit court of Morgan county, for the larceny of a Ford Model “T” automobile, engine No. 11,325,336. The record is before this court" for review upon writ of error.

July 5, 1925, a Ford sedan belonging to Elmer E. Hagler was stolen from in front of a building on the corner of Capitol avenue and Fourth street, in Springfield. Hagler bought the car March 31, 1925. At the time it was assembled it contained a Ford Model “T” automobile engine, No. 11,325,336, but there is no evidence in the…