The People v. Lipiano

Plaintiff in error, with Mike Salambino and Joe Page, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county under a charge of burglary and receiving stolen property. Salambino and Page were not apprehended. The case as to plaintiff in error was tried before the court, a jury having been waived, and at the close of the People’s case the State’s attorney nolle prossed the burglary charge and the court found plaintiff in error guilty of receiving stolen property, consisting of olive oil, cottonseed oil, soap, and like articles, of the value of $154, the property of one Joseph Seff. Plaintiff in…