People v. O'CONNOR

Mr. ChiEP Justice Bristow

delivered the opinion of the court:

Robert O’Connor, the plaintiff in error, was convicted by the municipal court of Chicago on his plea of not guilty to an information charging him with violation of the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1951, chap. 38, par. 192.23, as amended,) for unlawfully having in his possession heroin, a certain habit-forming drug. This was his first offense and he was sentenced to serve a term of two years in the county jail of Cook County.

O’Connor appealed by writ of error to the Supreme Court which transferred the cause to the…