People v. Hawkins

In a bench trial defendant, Charles Hawkins, was convicted of attempted robbery and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than three years nor more than five years.

The chief contention advanced for reversal is that the evidence adduced at the trial failed to prove the defendant guilty of attempted robbery.

William Nolan, a Chicago police officer assigned to an undercover unit, testified that at about 1:00 o’clock on the morning of September 16, 1962, he was dressed in civilian clothes; that he was walking on Kedzie Avenue just south of Roosevelt Road with Officers William Struke…