People v. Meier

■ Plaintiff in error, John L. Meier, was found guilty by a jury in the criminal court of Cook County of the crime of burglary and was sentenced under the Habitual Criminal Act to life imprisonment. He comes here by writ of error on the common-law record alone, without a bill of exceptions.

The sufficiency of the verdict to sustain a sentence under the Habitual Criminal Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1953, chap. 38, par. 602,) is the only point raised. Plaintiff in error admits that the indictment upon which he was tried and convicted contained a valid allegation of a prior conviction of a felony and a…