The People v. Kraus

A jury in the criminal court of Cook county found Charles Kraus guilty of petit larceny and found the value of the water stolen from the town of Cicero to be $14.99. He was sentenced to the Cook county jail for five months and fined one dollar and costs. He has sued out this writ of error to review that judgment and one of his claims is that his constitutional rights were invaded by an unreasonable search and seizure, for which reason he says the court erred when it denied his motion to suppress evidence.

On March 4, 1940, some of the officials of the Milk Wagon Drivers Union and the Inside…