People v. McArthur

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Defendant, Boy McArthur, filed his petition under sec. 72 of the Civil Practice Act, praying that the judgment by which he was convicted, in the criminal court of Cook county, of receiving a stolen automobile, knowing the same to have been stolen, and the sentence under such conviction be set aside and held for naught, and a new trial ordered on the ground that errors of fact had been committed in the trial of the criminal case.

The People, by the State’s attorney, filed a motion to dismiss the petition, which was overruled; the court then heard the testimony of a witness and also…