The People v. Shroyer

On February 5, 1929, the plaintiff in error was convicted in the circuit court of Winnebago county for burglary committed on January 17, 1928, and sentenced to the penitentiary. He had been previously tried upon another charge of burglary committed February 3, 1928, and was acquitted on the grounds of insanity. The verdict on that trial was returned June 5, 1928, and found “that at the time of the commission of said acts he was an insane person and that he has not permanently recovered from such insanity.” Judgment was entered on the verdict and he was sentenced to the Elgin State Hospital,…