The People v. Perkins

November 14, 1941, the defendant, Edward Pearl Perkins, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the crime of robbery. The indictment further charged defendant’s previous conviction on December 18, 1929, of the crime of larceny of property having a value of $46 and his sentence to imprisonment in the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac. A jury found him guilty of robbery in manner and form as charged in the indictment and that, under the name of Edward McKenny, he had been theretofore convicted of larceny. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were denied and, on…