The PEOPLE v. Hightower

After a bench trial in the criminal court of Cook County, the defendant, Mose Hightower, was convicted of unlawfully possessing and selling narcotic drugs and was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than twenty nor more than thirty years. He prosecutes this writ of error for review contending that certain money used as evidence was seized in violation of his constitutional rights, and that he was not proved guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

Facts pertinent to defendant’s contentions, as developed both at a hearing to suppress the money as evidence and at the subsequent trial,…