The PEOPLE v. Hines

The defendant, Pearlie Hines, was found guilty by a jury in the criminal court of Cook County of the sale and dispensing of narcotics. He was sentenced to a term of not less than 10 years nor more than life imprisonment in the penitentiary. For a reversal of the trial court judgment the defendant urges (1) that the trial court erroneously instructed the jury, (2) that the State had no right to nolle pros count II of the indictment charging possession of narcotics, (3) failure to prove that the white powder seized was in fact a narcotic drug, (4) failure to establish the defendant’s guilt…