The People v. Ruckfr

The defendant, Kenneth Rucker, in the criminal court of Cook county, was. found guilty of murder on a trial before a jury and by their verdict his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for 199 years. Judgment was entered in accordance with the verdict. By this writ of error he seeks to have the judgment of the trial court declared to be, in effect, a life sentence rather than for a term of years, in order that the provisions of the Parole act (State Bar Stat. 1935, chap. 38, sec. 1, p. 1259,) relative to life imprisonment may become applicable to his sentence.

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