The People v. Casey

An indictment returned in the circuit court of Winnebago County, May 16, 1947, charged defendant, Patrick Leo Casey, with the crime of larceny of money to the amount of $2490, the property of one Charles W. Ainsworth. There were three counts in the indictment, each charging larceny, but the second count also charged that “Patrick Leo Casey, otherwise known as Pat Casey,” had pleaded guilty in 1929 to an indictment in the circuit court of Buchanan County, Missouri, which charged robbery in the first degree. The Missouri judgment showed that Casey had been sentenced to the penitentiary for a…