The People v. Hall

After a bench trial in the criminal court of Cook County, the defendant, Walter Hall, was found guilty under an indictment charging him with unlawfully selling and possessing narcotic drugs. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of 15 years to life and now prosecutes this writ of error for review. As grounds for reversal, most ably presented by his appointed counsel, defendant makes the contentions that his undisputed testimony established a defense of entrapment as a matter of law, and that the means by which the police secured his arrest and conviction denied him…