People v. Kendall

Defendant, James Kendall, prosecutes this writ of error to review a judgment of the criminal court of Cook County whereby he was found guilty of unarmed robbery and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of not less than 19 years nor more than 20 years. He appears pro se and presents only the common-law record. As grounds for reversal he contends, first, that he was forced to trial with such dispatch as to be denied the effective assistance of counsel and due process of law and, second, that he was denied the right of trial by jury.

Recourse to the common-law record, which here circumscribes…