The PEOPLE v. Jackson

After being granted a change of venue from the county court of Champaign County, the defendant, Wardell Jackson, was tried by a jury in the criminal court of Cook County and was found guilty of unlawfully possessing certain policy paraphernalia, and of maintaining a place for policy playing. Judgment was entered on the verdict and defendant was sentenced to the county jail for a period of ten months and fined the sum of one thousand dollars. He prosecutes this writ of error for review contending principally that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence seized under…