People v. Robinson

Plaintiff in error, Elbert R. Robinson, was indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for obtaining from Delilah M. Pelletier $380 by means of the confidence game and on a trial was convicted and sent to the penitentiary.

The first assignment of error requiring attention is that the court refused to permit counsel for the defendant to interrogate veniremen to ascertain their qualifications to act as. jurors. The examination of the veniremen covers 135 pages, and the abstract does not contain the full examination of any of them but only a few questions to which objections were sustained,…