The People v. Brown

Plaintiff in error was found guilty of burglary and larceny in the circuit court of DeKalb county and was sentenced March 1, 1944, to the Illinois State Penitentiary for a term of one year to life. He brings the cause here contending that the court had no jurisdiction to impose such sentence but that it should have fixed in the sentence the minimum and maximum limits of his imprisonment.

Section 36 of division I of the Criminal Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. L943, chap. 38, par. 84,) declares that upon conviction of the crime with which plaintiff in error was charged, and of which he was found guilty,…