The People v. Priola

Mr. Chiee Justice Gunn

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs in error, Joseph Priola and Irving Sternberg, hereinafter referred to as defendants, were convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the crime of obtaining money by the confidence game. The court sentenced each of them to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than six nor more than eight years. The indictment charged that they obtained, from one Dora Koll, $975.

The facts claimed to establish the crime are substantially as follows: On October 22, 1943, Mrs. Koll was accosted on the street by Priola,…