The PEOPLE v. Lewis

Elliot Lewis, the defendant herein, and Raymond Hall were jointly indicted in the criminal court of Cook County for the crime of unlawfully selling narcotic drugs. When the case came on for trial, the attorney who represented both defendants stated that Hall wished to waive his right to a jury trial. The court stated that the procedure would be to try the defendant Lewis by jury and let Hall sit in throughout the trial of Lewis, and that they would then try Hall after the jury decided Lewis’s case. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as to Lewis. Counsel stipulated that the evidence which…