People v. Ferguson

Sterling Ferguson was indicted for burglary by the grand jury of Cook County, and on his plea of guilty was convicted and, on May 27, 1935, was sentenced to the penitentiary. He brings this writ of error to review the judgment of conviction upon the common-law record, contending that the sentence imposed upon him was so uncertain and indefinite as to be void, or, alternatively, that it should be considered as a concurrent rather than a consecutive sentence.

The judgment order commanded the Department of Public Welfare “to take the body of the said Defendant, Sterling Ferguson, and confine him…