Luddy v. People

At the February term, 1905, of the criminal court of Cook county the grand jury returned an indictment charging the plaintiff in error, W. J. Luddy, with stealing certain goods and chattels, the property of Lucy J. Kimball. Upon a trial before the court and a jury he was found guilty as charged and the value of the property was fixed at $500. A motion for a new trial was overruled and Luddy was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at Joliet. To reverse that judgment this writ of error has been prosecuted.

The plaintiff in error, at the time of the alleged theft and at the time of his…