People v. Lueder

Following a trial in the criminal court of Cook County without a jury, Donald Lueder, plaintiff in error, was adjudged guilty of burning a building and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of one year to one year and a day. He prosecutes this writ of error contending, first, that the court erroneously admitted a tape or wire recorded confession into evidence without proper foundation and, second, that there was no proof of the corpus delicti other than his alleged confession.

Adverting to the contention last made, we find from the record that the entire proof against plaintiff in error…