The PEOPLE v. Redding

Defendant Edward Redding was found guilty of the unlawful sale of a narcotic drug after a bench trial in the criminal court of Cook County. He was sentenced to a term in the State penitentiary of not less than 10 nor more than 12 years. For a reversal of the lower court judgment he urges (1) that he was unlawfully arrested, beaten and forcibly searched and that the trial court erred in denying a motion to suppress the evidence which resulted therefrom and (2) that the evidence failed to establish his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

The evidence at the trial revealed that on February 13, 1961,…